Verbosity
Verbosity (also called wordiness, prolixity, grandiloquence, garrulousness and logorrhea, informally verbal diarrhea) refers to speech or writing which is deemed to use an excess of words. Adjectival forms are verbose, wordy, prolix and garrulous. Examples are the expressions "in the vicinity of" (which can be replaced with "near") and "in order to" (which can be replaced with "to"). The opposite of verbosity is plain language (or plain English).
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“He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)