Perissology

Use this forum to suggest Good Words for Professor Beard.
Grogie
Senior Lexiterian
Posts: 656
Joined: Sat Oct 15, 2005 5:23 am
Location: Michigan, United States

Perissology

Postby Grogie » Tue May 05, 2020 7:57 pm

The use of more words than necessary. Redundancy or superfluity of expression. ''The publisher wouldn,t accept his poem because it contained too much perissology.''

User avatar
Slava
Great Grand Panjandrum
Posts: 8040
Joined: Thu Sep 28, 2006 9:31 am
Location: Finger Lakes, NY

Re: Perissology

Postby Slava » Sun Apr 25, 2021 6:22 pm

Ahh, pleonastically repetitive redundancies, aka logorrhea. Has anyone coined "twitterrhea," yet? :twisted:
Life is like playing chess with chessmen who each have thoughts and feelings and motives of their own.


Return to “Good Word Suggestions”

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 28 guests