verbosity: The state or character of being verbose: employment of a superabundance of words; the use of more words than are necessary; wordiness; prolixity: said either of a speaker or writer, or of what is said or written.
"But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every word that serves no function, every long word that could be a short word, everyadverbthat carries the same meaning that's already in the verb, everypassiveconstruction that leaves the reader unsure o...