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perissology (s) (noun), perissologies (pl)
1. The use of more words than are necessary to give meaning or understanding about what is being said; pleonasm: When Greg's mother asked the plumber what went wrong with the water not coming out from the faucets, his perissology confused her so much that she had no idea what he was talking about.
2. Etymology: from Greek, perissologos and from Latin perissologia, "speaking too much".
Verbosity of talking.
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This entry is located in the following units: -ology, -logy, -ologist, -logist (page 57) peri- (page 15) perisso-, periss- + (page 1)