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wordiness(speech, excessive, repetition, waffle)
9
periphrasis(speech, repetition, profusion, waffle)
9
verbiage(speech, repetition, redundancy, diffusion)
9
redundancy(repetition, profusion, waffle, diffuseness)
8
tautology(speech, repetition, waffle, diffuseness)
6
pleonasm(speech, repetition, profusion, waffle)
5
verbosity(repetition, profusion, redundancy, diffusion)
5
ambage
5
periphrase(speech, repetition, waffle, diffuseness)
4
prolixity(speech, repetition, profusion, redundancy)
3
euphemism(speech, delicacy, something, indirectness)
3
indirect expression(expression, idiom)
3
roundabout
3
speech
2
circumambages
2
circularity(intricacy, periphrasis, long-windedness)
2
diffuseness(speech, repetition, redundancy, diffusion)
2
verbality
2
verboseness(repetition, profusion, copiousness, overabundance)
1
allocution
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