verbiage

n 1: overabundance of words

2: the manner in which something is expressed in words: "use

concise military verbiage"- G.S.Patton [syn: {wording}, {diction},

{phrasing}, {phraseology}, {choice of words}]

verbiage

When the context involves a software or hardware system, this

refers to {documentation}. This term borrows the connotations

of mainstream "verbiage" to suggest that the documentation is

of marginal utility and that the motives behind its production

have little to do with the ostensible subject.

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