the.com/wordiness
Using fourteen words to say what six could handle perfectly fine.
means The habit of padding speech or writing with more words than the meaning actually requires.
from Built straightforwardly from 'wordy' plus the noun suffix '-ness.' 'Wordy' itself dates back to Old English 'wordig,' simply meaning full of words — a plain Germanic compound with no hidden drama. The word has stayed almost comically literal for over a thousand years: it means exactly what it looks like it means.
- origin
- from word plus the suffix of excess
- classic tell
- due to the fact that instead of because
- irony
- definitions of it are often needlessly long
- fix
- delete every third word, meaning survives