Verbiage \Ver"bi*age\ (?; 48), n. [F. verbiage, from OF. verbe a
   word. See Verb.]
   The use of many words without necessity, or with little
   sense; a superabundance of words; verbosity; wordiness.
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         Verbiage may indicate observation, but not thinking.
                                                  --W. Irving.
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         This barren verbiage current among men.  --Tennyson.
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	verbiage
     n 1: overabundance of words
     2: the manner in which something is expressed in words; "use
        concise military verbiage"- G.S.Patton [syn: wording, diction,
         phrasing, phraseology, choice of words]

	

	55 Moby Thesaurus words for "verbiage":
   choice of words, circumambages, circumbendibus, circumlocution,
   cloud of words, composition, dialect, diction, expansiveness,
   expression, floridity, floridness, flow of words, flux of words,
   formulation, grammar, idiom, language, lexicon, lexis, locution,
   logorrhea, long-windedness, longiloquence, nimiety, parlance,
   periphrase, periphrasis, phrase, phraseology, phrasing, pleonasm,
   prolixity, redundancy, repetition, rhetoric, roundabout, speech,
   stock of words, talk, talkativeness, tautology, thesaurus, usage,
   use of words, usus loquendi, verbalism, verbality, verbosity,
   vocabulary, wordage, wordhoard, wordiness, wording, words

	

	verbiage n. When the context involves a software or hardware system,
   this refers to documentation. This term borrows the connotations of
   mainstream `verbiage' to suggest that the documentation is of marginal
   utility and that the motives behind its production have little to do
   with the ostensible subject.

	

	verbiage
     
        When the context involves a software or hardware system, this
        refers to documentation.  This term borrows the connotations
        of mainstream "verbiage" to suggest that the documentation is
        of marginal utility and that the motives behind its production
        have little to do with the ostensible subject.
     
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