Wat (wie) is verbiage - definitie
Verbiage
SPEECH OR WRITING THAT USES MORE WORDS THAN NECESSARY
Perissologia; Logorrhoea (linguistics); Sesquipedalianism; Macrologia; Verbal diarrhea; Verbal Diarrhoea; Prolix; Verbose; Verboseness; Talkative; Garrulous; Garrulousness; Garrulity; Prolixities; Verbiage; Wordiness; Wordy; Loquaciousness; Loquatiousness; Logorrhoea (rhetoric); Logorrhea (rhetoric); Prolixity; Gobshite; Expatiation; Loquacious; Overwriting (prose); Draft:Overwriting (prose); Word messiness
·noun The use of many words without necessity, or with little sense; a superabundance of words; verbosity; wordiness.
verbiage
SPEECH OR WRITING THAT USES MORE WORDS THAN NECESSARY
Perissologia; Logorrhoea (linguistics); Sesquipedalianism; Macrologia; Verbal diarrhea; Verbal Diarrhoea; Prolix; Verbose; Verboseness; Talkative; Garrulous; Garrulousness; Garrulity; Prolixities; Verbiage; Wordiness; Wordy; Loquaciousness; Loquatiousness; Logorrhoea (rhetoric); Logorrhea (rhetoric); Prolixity; Gobshite; Expatiation; Loquacious; Overwriting (prose); Draft:Overwriting (prose); Word messiness
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.
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verbiage
SPEECH OR WRITING THAT USES MORE WORDS THAN NECESSARY
Perissologia; Logorrhoea (linguistics); Sesquipedalianism; Macrologia; Verbal diarrhea; Verbal Diarrhoea; Prolix; Verbose; Verboseness; Talkative; Garrulous; Garrulousness; Garrulity; Prolixities; Verbiage; Wordiness; Wordy; Loquaciousness; Loquatiousness; Logorrhoea (rhetoric); Logorrhea (rhetoric); Prolixity; Gobshite; Expatiation; Loquacious; Overwriting (prose); Draft:Overwriting (prose); Word messiness
If you refer to someone's speech or writing as verbiage, you are critical of them because they use too many words, which makes their speech or writing difficult to understand. (FORMAL)
Stripped of their pretentious verbiage, his statements come dangerously close to inviting racial hatred.
= waffle
N-UNCOUNT [disapproval]
Uitspraakvoorbeelden voor verbiage
1. rather than just listening to verbiage.
The Sense of Style _ Steven Pinker _ Talks at Google
2. dispenses verbiage like this, "We needed
The Sense of Style _ Steven Pinker _ Talks at Google
3. to potentially approach someone or, you know, certain verbiage
Losing a Child to Suicide _ Nicole Browning _ Talks at Google
4. that so much of our verbiage about abstract events
ted-talks_164_StevenPinker_2005G-320k
5. but I think the verbiage around it is so important.
Mental Health - The Motherhood Shift _ Elise Loehnen & Catherine Birndorf _ Talks at Google
Voorbeelden uit tekstcorpus voor verbiage
1. But all of this polite verbiage conceals stark realities.
2. Some nation‘s policing of language has gone far beyond the verbiage in their constitution.
3. That‘s the thing about modern verbiage; it‘s the language of forced optimism.
4. What differences there are are primarily in blah–blah political verbiage.
5. Her verbiage may just be a nervous tic that comes out in interviews.