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diffuseness

Roget-categorie 573

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
4.10. Means of communicating ideas
›› 4.10.2. Conventional means

#573. Diffuseness

zelfstandig naamwoord

diffuseness etc. adj. — amplification etc. v. — dilating etc. v. — verbosity, verbiage, cloud of words, copia verborum [Lat.]flow of words etc. (loquacity) 584looseness.
Polylogy, tautology, battology, perissologypleonasm, exuberance, redundancythrice-told taleprolixitycircumlocution, ambagesperiphrase, periphrasisroundabout phrasesepisodeexpletivepennya-liningrichness etc. 577.

werkwoord

be diffuse etc. adj. — run out on, descant, expatiate, enlarge, dilate, amplify, expand, inflatelaunch out, branch outrant.
maunder, proseharp upon etc. (repeat) 104dwell on, insist upon.
digress, ramble, battre la campagne [Fr.], beat about the bush, perorate, spin a long yarn, protractspin out, swell out, draw outbattologize.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

diffuse, profusewordy, verbose, largiloquent, copious, exuberant, pleonastic, lengthylongsome, long-winded, longspun, long drawn outspun out, protracted, prolix, prosing, maunderingcircumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious, roundaboutdigressivediscursive, excursivelooserambling episodicflatulent, frothy.

bijwoord

diffusely etc. adj. — at large, in extenso [Lat.]about it and about it.

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