verbiage

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verbiage - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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 - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  verbiage
      n 1: overabundance of words [syn: verbiage, verbalism]
      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,
         verbiage]

verbiage - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  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.
  
     [Jargon File]
  

verbiage - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  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 - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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