prolixity(n = noun.communication) long-windedness, prolixness, windiness, wordiness - boring verbosity;
is a kind of verboseness, verbosity
has particulars: flatulence, turgidity, turgidness
Derived form adjective prolix1
The quality or state of being prolix; great length; minute detail; as, prolixity in discourses and writings. Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
"Idly running on with vain prolixity." [1913 Webster]
N diffuseness, amplification, dilating, verbosity, verbiage, cloud of words, copia verborum, flow of words, looseness, Polylogy, tautology, battology, perissology, pleonasm, exuberance, redundancy, thrice-told tale, prolixity, circumlocution, ambages, periphrase, periphrasis, roundabout phrases, episode, expletive, pennya-lining, richness, diffuse, profuse, wordy, verbose, largiloquent, copious, exuberant, pleonastic, lengthy, longsome, long-winded, longspun, long drawn out, spun out, protracted, prolix, prosing, maundering, circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious, roundabout, digressive, discursive, excursive, loose, rambling episodic, flatulent, frothy, diffusely, at large, in extenso, about it and about it.