COBOL syntax has often been criticized for its verbosity. The Arcadian school, with its verbosity and triviality, was rejected. The word "verbosity" comes from Latin "verbosus", "wordy". These are designed for clarity, parseability and to minimize ambiguity, at the price of verbosity. The related concept of succinctness is the opposite of verbosity. XML and its extensions have regularly been criticized for verbosity, complexity and redundancy. There are slabs of verbosity juxtaposed with pauses and stunted sentences. C++ includes another construct that makes this verbosity unnecessary. Leaving behind the world's superfluous verbosity has clearly brought a perceptive freedom to the poems. However, extreme verbosity in variable names can also lead to less comprehensible code. Its purpose is to provide extensibility, neutrality, verbosity and independence. The verbosity of the information in the output file is controlled in the input file. A. L. Rowse speculated that Polonius's tedious verbosity might have resembled Burghley's. The opposite of verbosity is plain language. He was prone to verbosity and coining obscure words without providing definition for the reader.