Synonyms include wordiness, verbiage, prolixity, grandiloquence, garrulousness, expatiation, logorrhea, and sesquipedalianism. This phenomenon is also called prolixity or logorrhea. Notwithstanding its prolixity, this is an interesting work. Ashamed as I am of the Prolixity, I thought I owed the Public Eight Vols. These two vast works of history were remarkable feats of prolixity. It usually takes one of two forms&colon; Overlap or prolixity. He was impatient of prolixity, cant, and the conventional standards of news importance. In all sermons let prolixity be avoided. "Prolixity" comes from Latin "prolixus", "extended".