discursiveness

Noun

Meaning

the quality of being discursive

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

roundabout euphemism indirectness circumlocution prolixity verbiage diffuseness loquaciousness periphrasis tautology supererogation garrulousness obliqueness freeness pleonasm

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Antonyms

shortness conciseness briefness taciturnity

Hypernyms

indirectness

Examples

... when you recollect something which belonged in an earlier chapter, do not go back, but jam it in where you are. Discursiveness does not hurt an autobiography in the least. Mark Twain

His examiner...said severely: "Baskerville, you blank round, discursiveness is not literature." "The aim of literature," Baskerville replied grandly, "is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart." Donald Barthelme

Close letter words and terms

discursist discursive discursively discursivise discursivity discursorily