battology
noun/baˈtɒl.ə.dʒi/UK/bæˈtɑː.lə.d͡ʒi/US
Etymology
From Ancient Greek βαττολογία (battología, “stammering speech”).
Definitions
Continual unnecessary reiteration of the same words, phrases, or ideas.
- Logomachy, battology, jingling of words, are all these fine speeches!
- This sonorous balance of phrase and epithet cannot always escape what Milton himself calls "the heathenish battology of multiplying words."
- For Watt's sense of chronology was strong, in a way, and his dislike of battology was very strong.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for battology. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA