longiloquence
English
Etymology
From Latin longus (“long”) + loquentia (“a talking”).
Noun
longiloquence (uncountable)
- long-windedness
- 1873, Fitzedward Hall, Modern English
- American longiloquence in oratory
- 1873, Fitzedward Hall, Modern English
Synonyms
- verbosity
Related terms
- ambages
- belabour
- circumlocution
- explicate
- loquacity
- pleniloquence
- verbose
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for longiloquence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)