Dictionary entry

Prolixity

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Pro‐lix″i‐ty (?), n. [L. prolixitas: cf. F. prolixité.] The quality or state of being prolix; great length; minute detail; as, prolixity in discourses and writings. “For fulsomeness of his prolixitee.” Chaucer.

Idly running on with vain prolixity. Drayton.