Meaning

Words collectively, considered in a mass sense..

Definitions by Sense

1. Words collectively, considered in a mass sense.
2. The excessive use of words.
3. The number of words used in a text: synonym of word count.
4. The choice of words used: word choice.

Example Sentences

Near-synonym: language

But the plates are good, and, in reality, sufficient without all the wordage.

Here, I think, we must class the portmanteau-wordage of James Joyce, in which the use of verbal and syllabic association is carried so far that its power of unconscious persuasion is lost and the reader’s response is diverted by a conscious ecstasy of enigma-hunting, like a pig rooting for truffles.

The official transcript totaled 2,045,000 words—more than twice the wordage of the Bible.

A work of elucidation couched in a lazily dense style; a biography seemingly concerned with externals but in fact spun from inside the biographer like a spider’s thread; a critical study which exceeds in wordage all the major works of its subject put together…

Near-synonyms: phrasing; terminology; phraseology

"With the wordage in the contract, we think we have a good case."

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When Should You Use Wordage?

Use wordage when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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