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prolixness

noun

Etymology

From prolix + -ness.

  1. derived from prōlixus
  2. derived from prolixe
  3. suffixed as prolixness — “prolix + ness”

Definitions

  1. prolixity

    • It is unnecessary to take any pains to show how much this prolixness must enervate the eloquence of all modern languages.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for prolixness. 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