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Roget's Thesaurus

Diffuseness

Nouns
  • diffuseness etc. adj.
  • amplification etc. v.
  • dilating etc. v.
  • verbosity, verbiage, cloud of words
  • flow of words etc. (loquacity) Loquacity
  • looseness. Polylogy, tautology, battology, perissology
  • pleonasm, exuberance, redundancy
  • thrice-told tale
  • prolixity
  • circumlocution, ambages
  • periphrase, periphrasis
  • roundabout phrases
  • episode
  • expletive
  • pennya-lining
  • richness etc. Ornament.
Verbs
  • be diffuse etc. adj.
  • run out on, descant, expatiate, enlarge, dilate, amplify, expand, inflate
  • launch out, branch out
  • rant. maunder, prose
  • harp upon etc. (repeat) Repetition
  • dwell on, insist upon. digress, ramble, beat about the bush, perorate, spin a long yarn, protract
  • spin out, swell out, draw out
  • battologize.
Adjectives
  • diffuse, profuse
  • wordy, verbose, largiloquent, copious, exuberant, pleonastic, lengthy
  • longsome, long-winded, longspun, long drawn out
  • spun out, protracted, prolix, prosing, maundering
  • circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious, roundabout
  • digressive
  • discursive, excursive
  • loose
  • rambling episodic
  • flatulent, frothy.
Adverbs
  • diffusely etc. adj.
  • at large
  • about it and about it.