11
wordiness(noun, speech, excessive, repetition, waffle)
9
periphrasis(noun, speech, repetition, profusion, waffle)
9
verbiage(noun, speech, repetition, redundancy, diffusion)
9
redundancy(noun, repetition, profusion, waffle, diffuseness)
8
tautology(noun, speech, repetition, waffle, diffuseness)
6
pleonasm(noun, speech, repetition, profusion, waffle)
5
verbosity(noun, repetition, profusion, redundancy, diffusion)
5
ambage
5
periphrase(noun, speech, repetition, waffle, diffuseness)
4
prolixity(noun, speech, repetition, profusion, redundancy)
3
ambages
3
euphemism(noun, speech, delicacy, something, indirectness)
3
indirect expression(noun, expression, idiom)
3
roundabout(noun, speech)
3
speech(noun, speech)
2
circumambages(noun, speech)
2
circularity(noun, intricacy, periphrasis, long-windedness)
2
diffuseness(noun, speech, repetition, redundancy, diffusion)
2
digression
2
obliqueness
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