Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties Division (II) Communication of Ideas Section III. Means of Communicating Ideas Various Qualities of Style 573. Diffuseness.
NOUN: DIFFUSENESS &c. adj.; amplification &c. v.; dilating &c. v.; verbosity, wordiness; verbiage, cloud of words, copia verborum [L. ]; flow of words (loquacity ) [See Loquacity ]; looseness.TAUTOLOGY, battology, polylogy [obs. ], perissology [obs. ]; pleonasm, exuberance, redundance; thrice-told tale; prolixity, longiloquence, longsomeness, circumlocution, ambages [rare ], periphrase, periphrasis, roundabout phrases; episode; expletive; penny-a-lining; richness [See Ornament ]; padding [editor’s cant ]; drivel, twaddle, drool. VERB: BE DIFFUSE &c. adj.; run out on, descant, expatiate, enlarge, dilate, amplify, expand, inflate, pad [editor’s cant ], launch out, branch out; rant.MAUNDER, prose; harp upon (repeat ) [See Repetition ]; dwell on, insist upon.DIGRESS, ramble, battre la campagne [F. ], beat about the bush, perorate, spin a long yarn, protract; spin -, swell -, draw- out; battologize or battalogize; drivel, twaddle, drool. ADJECTIVE: DIFFUSE, profuse; wordy, verbose, largiloquent [obs. ], copious, exuberant, pleonastic, lengthy; long, long-some, long-winded, longspun, long drawn out; spun out, protracted, prolix, diffusive, prosing, maundering; circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious or ambaguious, ambagitory, roundabout; digressive; discursive, excursive; loose; rambling, episodic; flatulent, frothy. ADVERB: DIFFUSELY &c. adj.; at large, in extenso [L. ]; about it and about. QUOTATION:
