verbalism

1. 1.

   the communication (in speech or writing) of your beliefs or opinions

   “expressions of good will”

   “he helped me find verbal expression for my ideas”

   “the idea was immediate but the verbalism took hours”

   Synonymsexpressionverbal expression

   Broadercommunication

   Narrowerarticulationcold turkeycongratulation
2. 2.

   overabundance of words

   Synonymsverbiage

   Broaderverboseness

Other forms of verbalism

plural

verbalisms·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about verbalism

What does verbalism mean?

verbalism means "the communication (in speech or writing) of your beliefs or opinions". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in verbalism?

verbalism has 3 syllables: ver-ba-lism. The stress falls on "ver".

What is another word for verbalism?

Close synonyms include expression, verbal expression, verbiage. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is verbalism a common word?

verbalism is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.