This is a small book in which to treat of so large a subject, and to avoid prolixity I have had to generalise.
Source: tatoeba (11762202)
Prolixity
//pɹəˈlɪk.sɪ.ti//
Synonyms for "prolixity" (86 found)
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Related words (43)
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23 translations across 15 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- многословие noun (An excess of words)
Catalan
1 entries- prolixitat noun (An excess of words)
Dutch
2 entries- breedsprakerigheid noun (An excess of words)
- langdradigheid noun (An excess of words)
Finnish
2 entries- jaarittelevuus noun (An excess of words)
- monisanaisuus noun (An excess of words)
French
1 entries- prolixité noun (An excess of words)
Galician
1 entries- prolixidade noun (An excess of words)
German
3 entries- Beredsamkeit noun (An excess of words)
- Langatmigkeit noun (An excess of words)
- Weitschweifigkeit noun (An excess of words)
Greek
2 entries- απεραντολογία noun (An excess of words)
- μακρηγορία noun (An excess of words)
Japanese
3 entries- くどさ noun (An excess of words)
- 冗漫 noun (An excess of words)
- 冗長 noun (An excess of words)
Occitan
1 entries- prolixitat noun (An excess of words)
Polish
1 entries- rozwlekłość noun (An excess of words)
Portuguese
1 entries- prolixidade noun (An excess of words)
Russian
2 entries- многосло́вие noun (An excess of words)
- многосло́вность noun (An excess of words)
Spanish
1 entries- prolijidad noun (An excess of words)
Swedish
1 entries- långrandighet noun (An excess of words)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
Sedulously avoid all polysyllabic profundity, pompous prolixity, psittaceous vacuity, ventriloquial verbosity, and vaniloquent vapidity.
Source: tatoeba (11822378)
Of Skelton's one excursion into dramatic form, Magnificence, not much need be said. [...] Its fault, a fatal one in drama, is its prolixity, but cut by at least two-thirds it might act very much better than one imagines.
Source: wiktionary
Must I then for twenty-three mortal days endure the prolixity of that tedious woman?
Source: wiktionary
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