wordiness

Questions about wordiness

What does wordiness mean?

wordiness means "boring verbosity".

How many syllables are in wordiness?

wordiness has 3 syllables and divides as wor-di-ness 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 wordiness?

Close synonyms include prolixity, prolixness, windiness, long-windedness. 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 wordiness a common word?

wordiness 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.