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Verbalism

noun
1.
The communication (in speech or writing) of your beliefs or opinions.  Synonyms: expression, verbal expression.  "He helped me find verbal expression for my ideas" , "The idea was immediate but the verbalism took hours"
2.
Overabundance of words.  Synonym: verbiage.





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... the other, so the notion that a concrete thing A should change into another concrete thing B is made Out to be contrary to reason. In Mr. Bradley's difficulty in seeing how sugar can be sweet intellectualism outstrips itself and becomes openly a sort of verbalism. Sugar is just sugar and sweet is just sweet; neither is the other; nor can the word 'is' ever be understood to join any subject to its predicate rationally. Nothing 'between' things can connect them, for 'between' is just that third thing, 'between,' and would need itself to be connected to the ...
— A Pluralistic Universe - Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the - Present Situation in Philosophy • William James


Words linked to "Verbalism" :   verbosity, communicating, congratulation, articulation, cold turkey, expression, verboseness, communication, voice, felicitation


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