verbiage
noun/ˈvɜː(ɹ).bi.ɪd͡ʒ/UK/ˈvɝ.bi.ɪd͡ʒ/US
Etymology
From French verbiage. Compare verb meaning "word" in verbal and verbose.
- borrowed from verbiage
Definitions
Overabundance of words.
- bureaucratic verbiage
- We're done drafting our paper except for the final check to see whether any verbiage can be reduced.
- A very garrulous person, he approached the counter in a fog of verbiage.
The manner in which something is expressed in words
The manner in which something is expressed in words; word choice.
- Near-synonyms: phrasing; terminology; phraseology
- In each article of this series, there is a paragraph on nutrition; the verbiage for it was developed by consensus among the section editors, and therefore no elective rewording should be done (by others) in any such paragraph.
- We're done drafting our paper except for the final verbiage on fire safety, which will be supplied by the safety engineers.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for verbiage. 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