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verbality

[ ver-bal-i-tee ]

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noun

plural verbalities

wordiness; verbal diffuseness:
a speech full of tedious verbality.
a verbal expression of an idea or thought.
the quality or character of a verb.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of verbality¹

First recorded in 1635–45; verbal + -ity

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The "precise verbality" is merely a private trouble of the poets.

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"I will disarm him with smiles and pleasant words," she every day resolved; yet every day was she pierced anew with his arrowy verbality.

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Note 5, page 280.—Green's attempt to discredit sensations by reminding us of their 'dumbness,' in that they do not come already named, as concepts may be said to do, only shows how intellectualism is dominated by verbality.

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One feels that in the theologians' hands, they are only a set of titles obtained by a mechanical manipulation of synonyms; verbality has stepped into the place of vision, professionalism into that of life.

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verbalist verbalize

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