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wordage

noun

Etymology

From word + -age.

  1. inherited from *werdʰh₁om✻ — “word”
  2. inherited from *wurdą✻ — “word”
  3. inherited from *word✻
  4. inherited from word
  5. inherited from word
  6. suffixed as wordage — “word + age”

Definitions

  1. Words collectively, considered in a mass sense.

    • Near-synonym: language

  2. The excessive use of words.

    • But the plates are good, and, in reality, sufficient without all the wordage.

  3. The number of words used in a text

    The number of words used in a text: synonym of word count.

    • The official transcript totaled 2,045,000 words—more than twice the wordage of the Bible.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. The choice of words used

      The choice of words used: word choice.

      • Near-synonyms: phrasing; terminology; phraseology
      • "With the wordage in the contract, we think we have a good case."

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for wordage. 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