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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

choice of words, circumambages, circumbendibus, circumlocution, cloud of words, composition, dialect, diction, expansiveness, expression, floridity, floridness, flow of words, flux of words, formulation, grammar, idiom, language, lexicon, lexis, locution, logorrhea, long-windedness, longiloquence, nimiety, parlance, periphrase, periphrasis, phrase, phraseology, phrasing, pleonasm, prolixity, redundancy, repetition, rhetoric, roundabout, speech, stock of words, talk, talkativeness, tautology, thesaurus, usage, use of words, usus loquendi, verbalism, verbality, verbosity, vocabulary, wordage, wordhoard, wordiness, wording, words

Dictionary Results for verbiage:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

verbiage
    n 1: overabundance of words [syn: verbiage, verbalism]
    2: the manner in which something is expressed in words; "use
       concise military verbiage"- G.S.Patton [syn: wording,
       diction, phrasing, phraseology, choice of words,
       verbiage]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Verbiage \Ver"bi*age\ (?; 48), n. [F. verbiage, from OF. verbe a
   word. See Verb.]
   The use of many words without necessity, or with little
   sense; a superabundance of words; verbosity; wordiness.
   [1913 Webster]

         Verbiage may indicate observation, but not thinking.
                                                  --W. Irving.
   [1913 Webster]

         This barren verbiage current among men.  --Tennyson.
   [1913 Webster]

3. The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003)

verbiage
 n.

    When the context involves a software or hardware system, this refers to 
    documentation. This term borrows the connotations of mainstream ?verbiage?
    to suggest that the documentation is of marginal utility and that the
    motives behind its production have little to do with the ostensible
    subject.

4. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018)

verbiage

    documentation, especially documentation that is verbose
   and/or obscure as in the common meaning of the term.

   [Jargon File]

   (2011-12-21)

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