prolixity

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Long-windedness, tiresome length, an excess of words. countable,uncountable
    — Of Skelton's one excursion into dramatic form, Magnificence, not much need be said. [...] Its fault, a fatal one in drama, is its prolixity, but cut by at least two-thirds it might act very much better than one imagines.

词形变化

prolixities plural

词源

From Old French prolixite, from Latin prolixitas. By surface analysis, prolix + -ity.
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