wordage

wordage
/werr"dij/, n.
1. words collectively.
2. quantity or amount of words: The wordage of the document exceeds a million.
3. verbiage; wordiness.
4. choice of words; wording: His wordage betrayed his lack of knowledge on the subject.
[1820-30; WORD + -AGE]

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