![]() Alternatively, they may get even more wordy as they get more emotional, leading to increasingly detailed but ultimately incoherent ranting that falls too easily into wangst. Occasionally such characters may drop the long words if things get particularly dire, to emphasize just how bad things are (in the same way as a Sarcasm Failure). This could also be the trait of a particularly anal-retentive character who always has to be right, the trait extending so far that the character always has to use exactly the right word - never using "blue" when "azure" or "indigo" or even "royal blue" would be more accurate, for example. ![]() Characters afflicted with this trait often seem to go out of their way to over-complicate their speech, probably because writers think that this is the only way to show that someone is more intelligent than the average writer. In brief: "smart" characters using long words when short ones would be better, especially when they are also motor mouths. Related to this is the use of inkhorn terms, loanwords from a foreign origin that are pretentious to an average speaker. ![]() How about "chattiness"?Ī predilection by the intelligentsia to engage in the manifestation of prolix exposition through a buzzword disposition form of communication notwithstanding the availability of more comprehensible, punctiliously applicable, diminutive alternatives. Loquaciousness: That would be garrulousness, verboseness, effusiveness. From the Latin roots meaning "a foot-and-a-half long." ![]() Sesquipedalian: A long word, or characterized by the use of long words. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl ![]()
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