ambagiousness
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ambagious — ambagiously, adv. ambagiousness, n. /am bay jeuhs/, adj. roundabout; circuitous: ambagious reasoning. [1650 60; < L ambagiosus, equiv. to ambagi (s. of ambages AMBAGES) + osus OUS] * * * … Universalium
complexity — n 1. intricacy, network, complex, complicacy; web, webwork, tangle, tangled skein, sleave; coil, twist, involution, circuity, tortuosity, sinuosity, meander, ambagiousness, flexuosity. 2. complication, problem, perplexity, puzzle, riddle,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
diffusion — n 1. dispersion, dissipation, dissipativi ty, circumfusion, spreading; scatteredness, scattering, strewing, bestrewing, sowing; dissemination, propagation, distribution, dispensation, circulation; effusion, effusiveness, radiation. 2. verbosity,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
gobbledegook — n 1. obfuscation, confusion, complexity, buzz word; educationese, computerese, academese, bureaucratese, legalese, medicalese; wordiness, verbosity, prolixity, prolixness, verbiage, verbalism; diffuseness, profuseness, profusiveness, effusion,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
involution — n 1. involvement, entanglement, tan glement, convolution; enmeshment, embarrassment, circumvolution. 2. complexity, complication, intricacy, intricateness, perplexity; tortuosity, ambagiousness, wilderness, jungle, confusion. 3. rolling up,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
prolixity — n verbosity, verboseness, wordiness, long windedness, verbiage; tautology, redundance, pleonasm, battology; discursiveness, discursion, digression, rambling, maundering, wandering; circumlocution, circuity, ambagiousness, roundaboutness;… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
tortuosity — n 1. crookedness, twistedness, anfrac tuosity, sinuousness, tortuousness; sinuosity, curve, bend, turn, crook, twist, convolution; maze, labyrinth. 2. indirectness, circuitousness, ambagiousness, evasiveness, unstraightforwardness; deviousness,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
verbosity — n 1. wordiness, verbality, verbalism, verbiage, prolixity, prolixness, loquacity, loquaciousness, long windedness, longiloquence, multiloquence; overtalkativeness, talkativeness, glibness, loose tongue, Inf. gabbiness, Inf. gift of gab, Inf.… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
volubility — n talkativeness, overtalkativeness, garrulity, garrulousness, glibness, Inf. gabbiness, loose tongue, Inf. gift of gab, Inf. windiness, Inf. gassiness, Inf. big mouth; verbosity, wordiness, verbality, verbalism, verbiage, prolixity, prolixness,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder