[syn: wording, diction, phrasing, phraseology, choice of words, verbiage]
The 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.
[1913 Webster]
Verbiage may indicate observation, but not thinking.
--W. Irving.
[1913 Webster]
This barren verbiage current among men. --Tennyson.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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]
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
The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 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.
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
verbiage
documentation, especially documentation that is verbose
and/or obscure as in the common meaning of the term.
[Jargon File]
(2011-12-21)