All discursiveness synonyms

noun discursiveness

• diffuseness — to pour out and spread, as a fluid.
• wordiness — characterized by or given to the use of many, or too many, words; verbose: She grew impatient at his wordy reply.
• roundabout — circuitous or indirect, as a road, journey, method, statement or person.
• prolixity — extended to great, unnecessary, or tedious length; long and wordy.
• pleonasm — the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea; redundancy.
• verbiage — overabundance or superfluity of words, as in writing or speech; wordiness; verbosity.
• indirectness — not in a direct course or path; deviating from a straight line; roundabout: an indirect course in sailing.
• tautology — needless repetition of an idea, especially in words other than those of the immediate context, without imparting additional force or clearness, as in “widow woman.”.
• periphrasis — the use of an unnecessarily long or roundabout form of expression; circumlocution.
• informality — the state of being informal; absence of formality.
• breadth — The breadth of something is the distance between its two sides.
• freeness — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
• indirect speech — Indirect speech is speech which tells you what someone said, but does not use the person's actual words: for example, 'They said you didn't like it', 'I asked him what his plans were', and 'Citizens complained about the smoke'.
• circumambages — round-about methods
• gassy — full of or containing gas.
• periphrase — the use of an unnecessarily long or roundabout form of expression; circumlocution.
• verbality — wordiness; verbal diffuseness: a speech full of tedious verbality.