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- Thesaurus|278
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| circumlocution(noun, speech, repetition, profusion, waffle) | |
| redundancy(noun, repetition, profusion, waffle, diffuseness) | |
| tautology(noun, repetition, waffle, roundabout, overabundance) | |
| verbiage(noun, repetition, profusion, waffle, roundabout) | |
| wordiness(noun, excessive, repetition, waffle, roundabout) | |
| verbosity(noun, repetition, waffle, overabundance, wordiness) | |
| ambage | |
| periphrase(noun, repetition, waffle, roundabout, diffuseness) | |
| pleonasm(noun, repetition, profusion, waffle, roundabout) | |
| prolixity(noun, repetition, waffle, roundabout, overabundance) | |
| verboseness(repetition, profusion, overabundance, superabundance) | |
| ambages | |
| diffuseness(noun, roundabout, wordiness) | |
| long-windedness(repetition, waffle, wordiness, verbosity) | |
| roundabout(noun, wordiness) | |
| catalogic | |
| circumambages(noun, roundabout, wordiness) | |
| discursiveness(noun, roundabout, wordiness) | |
| episode | |
| euphemism(noun, roundabout, wordiness) |
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