longiloquence

English

Etymology

From Latin longus (“long”) + loquentia (“a talking”).

Noun

longiloquence (uncountable)

1. (archaic) long-windedness
   • 1873, Fitzedward Hall, Modern English:

     American longiloquence in oratory

Synonyms

• verbosity

See also

• ambages
• belabour
• circumlocution
• explicate
• loquacity
• pleniloquence
• verbose

References

• “longiloquence”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.