VERBALISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does verbalism mean? 

• VERBALISM (noun)
  The noun VERBALISM has 2 senses:

1. the communication (in speech or writing) of your beliefs or opinions

2. overabundance of words

  Familiarity information: VERBALISM used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VERBALISM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The communication (in speech or writing) of your beliefs or opinions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

expression; verbal expression; verbalism

Context example:

the idea was immediate but the verbalism took hours

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

communicating; communication (the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information)

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

articulation; voice (expressing in coherent verbal form)

cold turkey (a blunt expression of views)

congratulation; felicitation ((usually plural) an expression of pleasure at the success or good fortune of another)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Overabundance of words

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

verbalism; verbiage

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

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