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Verbosity is the product of making a text verbose, a process which is the exact opposite of being concise. A verbose text is one that has a larger than necessary amount of words, usually the inflation being due to a higher number of adjectives. Verbose texts tend to be more descriptive, but at the cost of blurring the information, to the point where excessively verbose texts have only description, and are often unreadable.
The british civil service is famed for its ability to obfuscate the meaning of text by excessive verbosity, a point often made in the satirical high-brow sitcom "Yes Minister". Indeed, the longer this article becomes, the more verbose it could be said to be, unless the majority of that length was due to substatially differing and relevant content.
Individual words which are excessive, and unnecessary, are referred to as pleonasms, wheras incidents of excessive verbosity are referred to as logorrhoea.
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