The quality of using many unnecessary words or taking a roundabout path in speech or writing.
From Latin 'ambages' (a going around, detour) plus the suffix '-ousness' (the state or condition of). This noun form emerged in English to describe the characteristic of being unnecessarily indirect or wordy in communication.
This word is like the opposite of 'brevity'—while brevity is the soul of wit, ambagiousness is the enemy of clarity, yet some people are naturally drawn to it for artistic effect or to sound sophisticated.
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