periphrasis Synonyms

circumlocution ambage verbal evasion long-windedness logorrhea verboseness wordiness windiness verbosity verbiage officialese catalogic wordage beating around the bush gassiness discursiveness indirect speech convolutedness circumambages circuitousness verbality tautology roundaboutness garrulity fecundity euphemism diffusion diffuseness circumlocutional circumbendibus battology indirectness loquaciousness roundabout redundancy prolixity pleonasm periphrase obliqueness macrology loquacity ambages