Usage of "prolixity" | TermGallery

Portuguese

prolixidade

Catalan

prolixitat

Spanish

verbosidad

Boring verbosity.

prolixidade

Synonyms

Examples for "wordiness"

Again he found himself interrupted by the wordiness of the doctor. 
 Mare Nostrum (Our Sea): A Novel 

What, forsooth, had I been looking for in the empty wordiness of the book? 
 Glimpses of Bengal / Selected from the Letters of Sir Rabindrana... 

And yet there is no noisiness, no wordiness, about them; nothing like rant or violence. 
 Discipline and Other Sermons 

They appear very wise in their wordiness when real military experts are silent for want of knowledge. 
 My Year of the War / Including an Account of Experiences with th... 

A final device for escaping wordiness you will have discovered for yourself while composing telegrams and telegraphic night letters. 
 The Century Vocabulary Builder 

Terrence completes his circle right there and stultifies all his windiness. 
 The Little Lady of the Big House 

I began to hope the whole thing might be nothing more than English windiness. 
 English passengers 

The mechanical theory is a necessary reaction against romance that has decayed into windiness, extravagance, and incoherence. 
 The Art of Letters 

I cried out on him as a scoundrel, though vexed with myself for such mere windiness of utterance. 
 Humphrey Bold: A Story of the Times of Benbow 

Out of the windiness 
 Making toast 

Because, I'm no match for you in long-windedness. 
 King Coal : a Novel 

The latter applies to Abraham Ibn Ezra, who might have said with the poet, "I avoid long-windedness, and I become obscure." 
 Rashi 

Usage of prolixity in English

But the new form brought with it a new danger-thatof prolixity. 
 The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller 

Such prolixity enchanted the King, whose greediness for business epistles was insatiable. 
 The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 05: 1559-60 

The centipedal prolixity that resulted went to Eli by letter, thus entitled- 
 The Cloister and the Hearth 

The stream of recordings, flows with bewildering prolixity from labels large and small. 
 The Irish Times 

The doctor cut short the father's prolixity in a burly voice:- 
 Together 

Nor on any topic do they speak more eloquently and with more prolixity. 
 The Apology of the Augsburg Confession 

His prolixity does not weary, nor his learning embarrass, the reader. 
 Lives of the English Poets / From Johnson to Kirke White, Design... 

His prolixity, indeed, it is not so easy to get over. 
 Famous Reviews, Selected and Edited with Introductory Notes by R... 

There is something to be enjoyed in each, no doubt, but what prolixity! 
 Balzac 

What a well-written book it is, too, in spite of all extravagance and prolixity. 
 Two Years Ago, Volume II. 

Let me explain it, even at the risk of prolixity. 
 At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies 

The fourth class includes prolixity, repetition, and an eddying instead of progression of thought. 
 The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters 

But my tactics of studied prolixity were a complete failure. 
 The Mystery of 31 New Inn 

The last was almost shouted after Ruth, who had run from the cook's prolixity. 
 Other Things Being Equal 

To this there is an encomium added, which its prolixity hinders me from inserting. 
 Lives of the English Poets / From Johnson to Kirke White, Design... 

I will conclude this letter with two incidents, omitting many others, to avoid prolixity. 
 The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 13 of 55 / 1604-1605 ... 