Usually means: Excessive length in speech, writing.
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  1. long-windedness: Merriam-Webster
  2. long-windedness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. long-windedness, long-windedness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. long-windedness: Vocabulary.com
  5. long-windedness: Wordnik
  6. long-windedness: Wiktionary
  7. long-windedness: Dictionary.com
  8. long-windedness: Rhymezone
  9. long-windedness: FreeDictionary.org
  10. long-windedness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. long-windedness: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. long-windedness: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. long-windedness: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (long-windedness)

▸ noun:  The use of more words than are necessary for clarity or precision; verbosity, prolixity.

Similar:
wordiness, prolixity, prolixness, longwindedness, longiloquence, logorrhea, verboseness, wordage, dilatation, verbiage, more...

Opposite:
conciseness, brevity, succinctness

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Similar:
wordiness, prolixity, prolixness, longwindedness, longiloquence, logorrhea, verboseness, wordage, dilatation, verbiage, more...

Opposite:
conciseness, brevity, succinctness



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