garrulity | Definition of garrulity

Synonyms and Antonyms of garrulity

the use of too many words to express an idea

in her article the professor resorts to garrulity in a vain attempt to disguise the fact that she has very little worth saying

Synonyms of garrulity

circumlocution, diffuseness, diffusion, garrulousness, logorrhea, long-windedness, periphrasis, prolixity, redundancy, verbalism, verbiage, verboseness, verbosity, windiness, wordage, wordiness

Words Related to garrulity

circuitousness, circularity, digressiveness

pleonasm, tautology

reiteration, repetition, repetitiousness, repetitiveness

embellishment, embroidering, exaggeration, hyperbole, overstatement

Near Antonyms of garrulity

brevity, briefness, compactness, conciseness, concision, crispness, pithiness, succinctness, terseness