III. MEANS OF COMMUNICATING IDEAS
2. Conventional means; language generally; various qualities of style
[Nouns] diffuseness; amplification; dilating; verbosity, verbiage, cloud of words, copia verborum; flow of words (loquacity) [more]; looseness.
polylogy, tautology, battology, perissology; pleonasm, exuberance, redundance; thrice-told tale; prolixity; circumlocution, ambages; periphrase, periphrasis; roundabout phrases; episode; expletive; penny-a-lining; richness [more].
maunder, prose; harp upon (repeat) [more]; dwell on, insist upon.
digress, ramble, battre la campagne, beat about the bush, perorate, spin a long yarn, protract; spin out, swell out, draw out; battologize.
[Adjectives] diffuse, profuse; wordy, verbose, largiloquent, copious, exuberant, pleonastic, lengthy; longsome, longwinded, longspun, long drawn out; spun out, protracted, prolix, prosing, maundering; circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious, roundabout; digressive; discursive, excursive; loose; rambling, episodic; flatulent, frothy.