prolixity
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English
Etymology
From Old French prolixite, from Latin prolixitas. By surface analysis, prolix + -ity.
Pronunciation
Noun
prolixity (countable and uncountable, plural prolixities)
- Long-windedness, tiresome length, excess of words.
- 1935, W. H. Auden, “John Skelton”, in Katharine Garvin, editor, The Great Tudors, London: Ivor Nichols & Watson Limited:
- 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.
- 1954, W Somerset Maugham, The World Over, The Collected Stories, volume 2, London: The Reprint Society, page 1268:
- Must I then for twenty-three mortal days endure the prolixity of that tedious woman?
Synonyms
Translations
An excess of words
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