prolixity
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Etymology edit
From Old French prolixite, from Latin prolixitas. By surface analysis, prolix + -ity.
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Noun edit
prolixity (countable and uncountable, plural prolixities)
- Long-windedness, an excess of words.
- 1954, W Somerset Maugham, The World Over, The Collected Stories, volume 2, London: The Reprint Society, page 1268:
- Must I then for twenty-three mortal days endure the prolixity of that tedious woman?
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Translations edit
An excess of words
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