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REPETITIVENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does repetitiveness mean? 

REPETITIVENESS (noun)
  The noun REPETITIVENESS has 1 sense:

1. verboseness resulting from excessive repetitionsplay

  Familiarity information: REPETITIVENESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


REPETITIVENESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Verboseness resulting from excessive repetitions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

repetitiousness; repetitiveness

Hypernyms ("repetitiveness" is a kind of...):

verboseness; verbosity (an expressive style that uses excessive or empty words)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "repetitiveness"):

redundancy (repetition of messages to reduce the probability of errors in transmission)

tautology (useless repetition)

Derivation:

repetitive (repetitive and persistent)

repetitive (characterized by repetition)


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