verbosity

Other forms of verbosity

plural

verbosities·

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 verbosity

What does verbosity mean?

verbosity means "an expressive style that uses excessive or empty words".

How many syllables are in verbosity?

verbosity has 4 syllables and divides as ver-bo-si-ty under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for verbosity?

Close synonyms include verboseness. 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 verbosity a common word?

verbosity 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.