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Verbosity
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This article is about linguistic verbosity. For prolixity, a character in the BBC education programme, see
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Verbosity (also called wordiness, prolixity and garrulousness) in language refers to speech or writing which is deemed to use an excess of words. Adjectival forms are verbose, wordy, prolix and garrulous.
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The balance between being clear and being concise is probably as old as writing itself. wrote about it in 1918. He advised "Use the active voice: Put statements in positive form; Omit needless words."
Ernest Hemingway (1899?1961), the 1954 Nobel prizewinner for literature, defended his concise style against a charge by
William Faulkner that he "had never been known to use a word that might send the ...
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