prolixity
noun/pɹəˈlɪk.sɪ.ti/ · /pɹəʊˈlɪk.sɪ.ti/
Etymology From Old French prolixite, from Latin prolixitas. By surface analysis, prolix + -ity.
1
Long-windedness, tiresome length, an excess of words.
- 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.1935, W. H. Auden, “John Skelton”, in Katharine Garvin, editor, The Great Tudors, London: Ivor Nichols & Watson Limited:
- Must I then for twenty-three mortal days endure the prolixity of that tedious woman?1954, W Somerset Maugham, The World Over, The Collected Stories, volume 2, London: The Reprint Society, page 1268:
- Synonyms
- verbosity