Definition of "wordage" []

• Words considered as a group. (noun)
• The use of an excessive number of words; verbiage. (noun)
• The number of words used, as in a novel. (noun)
• Wording. (noun)

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• "IMHO the current wordage is testing the waters of international opinion to see if it can get a cut from the likely large amount of petroleum sitting in that part of the continental shelf."
• "Whether I move today's scene to the beginning or not, I suspect I won't make quite as big a jump in wordage tomorrow because I'm going to rewrite part of what I wrote today to make it more exciting."
• "But all of these things influence the reader’s experience, usually unfavourably; and it is obviously easier to give a text ‘air’, so to speak, if the wordage is short than if it is long."