Usually means: Use of long, complex words.
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  1. sesquipedality: Merriam-Webster
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  8. sesquipedality: FreeDictionary.org
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▸ noun:  An instance or condition of being sesquipedalian.

Similar:
sesquisyllabicity, sesquilingualism, sequaciousness, pedanticalness, sequacity, quinquelingualism, literatesqueness, squabness, sessility, squattiness, more...

Opposite:
brevity, conciseness, shortness

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Similar:
sesquisyllabicity, sesquilingualism, sequaciousness, pedanticalness, sequacity, quinquelingualism, literatesqueness, squabness, sessility, squattiness, more...

Opposite:
brevity, conciseness, shortness



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