prolixity

From Old French prolixite, from Latin prolixitas. By surface analysis, prolix +‎ -ity.

• IPA^(key): /pɹəˈlɪk.sɪ.ti/, /pɹəʊˈlɪk.sɪ.ti/

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prolixity (countable and uncountable, plural prolixities)

1. Long-windedness, tiresome length, excess of words.
   • 1935, W. H. Auden, “John Skelton”, in Katharine Garvin, editor, The Great Tudors, London: Ivor Nichols & Watson Limited:

     Of Skelton's one excursion into dramatic form, Magnificence, not much need be said. [...] Its fault, a fatal one in drama, is its prolixity, but cut by at least two-thirds it might act very much better than one imagines.

   • 1954, W Somerset Maugham, The World Over, The Collected Stories, volume 2, London: The Reprint Society, page 1268:

     Must I then for twenty-three mortal days endure the prolixity of that tedious woman?

• verbosity