as in garrulousness
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
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Recent Examples of garrulity
Flatulent describes inflated, pretentious writing; garrulity describes excessive talkativeness.
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Gary Gilson, Star Tribune, 31 Oct. 2020
Gary Gilson, Star Tribune, 31 Oct. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for garrulity
Noun
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Homosexual life, by contrast, is one of unfruitful stasis and sterile repetition.—
Garth Greenwell,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
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An effective way to ensure your brand values and message are visible on your website is repetition.—
Rolling Stone Culture Council,
Rolling Stone,
19 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Just as the limitless space of web text tempts writers to indulge their logorrhea, the blinking, ever-transmuting, cartoonish interface of web browsers prevents would-be readers from paying attention to anything for longer than about 7 seconds.—
Barton Swaim,
WSJ,
19 Sep. 2022
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Nor has Musk kept his Twitter logorrhea in check in other respects.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Apr. 2022
Noun
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Balmain signs licenses for men’s outerwear and casualwear and launches the B Balmain diffusion line, designed by Christiane Bailly.—
Lily Templeton,
Footwear News,
19 Sep. 2025
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In one more example of investment strategy, the ISSA believes hitting certain metrics for diffusion of its product will create value for broadcasting future Games, which will in turn generate interest, excitement, and young athletes who will go on to compete at future Games.—
Blythe Lawrence,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
Noun
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This working prompt injection came only after much trial and error, explaining the verbosity and the detail in it.—
Dan Goodin,
ArsTechnica,
18 Sep. 2025
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The truth is, there is rarely a Merritt Wever or an Adrien Brody in awards speeches—extreme cases of brevity or verbosity that stun both those in the room and at home.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
15 Sep. 2025
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Remaining on stage with gracious verbalism, Batiste first acknowledged the nominees.—
Allison Hazel,
Essence,
9 June 2021
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Their circumlocutions were as entrancing as their ability to find the most precisely ironic words for difficult-to-name realities.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
8 July 2025
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Here, instead, she’s swayed by a dead Diana softly squeezing her hand and kindly hinting — the dead Diana is an ace at tactful circumlocution — that now is the time to show a mourning nation some emotion.—
Tom Gliatto,
Peoplemag,
16 Nov. 2023
Noun
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On their website, the three yellow stripes are prominently featured on the website under the Black Lives Matter wordage, and used on their social media accounts.—
Amritpal Kaur Sandhu-Longoria,
USA TODAY,
29 Mar. 2023
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Reached by the Union-Tribune Wednesday morning, Lindsey differed with McGillis’ wordage.—
Don Norcross,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Mar. 2023
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“Garrulity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/garrulity. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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