REPETITIOUSNESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Verboseness resulting from excessive repetitions

Synonyms:

repetitiousness; repetitiveness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

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

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

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

tautology (useless repetition)

Derivation:

repetitious (characterized by repetition)