Ver-bōs'i-ty, n.

n. [Fr. verbosité, Pr. verbositat, Sp. verbosidad, Pg. verbosidade, It. verbosità, Lat. verbositas.] The quality of being verbose; employment of a superabundance of words; the use of more words than are necessary; prolixity.

The worst fault, by far, is the extreme diffuseness and verbosity of his style. Jeffrey.