prolixity

English

Etymology

From Old French prolixite, from Latin prolixitas. By surface analysis, prolix +‎ -ity.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹəˈlɪk.sɪ.ti/, /pɹəʊˈlɪk.sɪ.ti/

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Noun

prolixity (countable and uncountable, plural prolixities)

1. Long-windedness, tiresome length, excess of words.
   • 1935, W. H. Auden, “John Skelton”, in Katharine Garvin, editor, The Great Tudors, London: Ivor Nichols & Watson Limited:

     Of Skelton's one excursion into dramatic form, Magnificence, not much need be said. [...] Its fault, a fatal one in drama, is its prolixity, but cut by at least two-thirds it might act very much better than one imagines.

   • 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?

Synonyms

• verbosity

Translations

An excess of words

• Bulgarian: многословие (bg) n (mnogoslovie)
• Catalan: prolixitat f
• Dutch: langdradigheid f, breedsprakerigheid f
• Finnish: monisanaisuus (fi), jaarittelevuus
• French: prolixité (fr) f
• Galician: prolixidade (gl) f
• German: Weitschweifigkeit f, Beredsamkeit (de) f, Langatmigkeit f
• Greek: απεραντολογία (el) f (aperantología), μακρηγορία (el) f (makrigoría)
• Japanese: くどさ (kudosa), 冗長 (ja) (jōchō), 冗漫 (ja) (jōman)
• Occitan: prolixitat f
• Polish: rozwlekłość (pl) f
• Portuguese: prolixidade (pt) f
• Russian: многосло́вность (ru) f (mnogoslóvnostʹ), многосло́вие (ru) n (mnogoslóvije)
• Spanish: prolijidad (es) f
• Swedish: långrandighet (sv) c