Caption—Space to add clarification to the purpose of the image or add a meta-gag relevant to the trope's definition. Captain Barbossa: There are a lot of long words in there, Miss; we're naught but humble pirates. What is it that you want? Elizabeth: I want you to leave and never come back. Barbossa: I'm disinclined to acquiesce to your request. Elizabeth: [stares at him in shock] Barbossa: Means "no.
Sesquipedalian : A long word, or characterized by the use of long words. From the Latin roots meaning "a foot-and-a-half long. Loquaciousness : That would be garrulousness, verboseness, effusiveness. How about "chattiness"? A 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.
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Also known as "gross verbosity. In brief: "smart" characters using long words when short ones would be better, especially when they are also motor mouths. 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.
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.
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. 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. Frequently another character will respond with something like "Wouldn't it be easier to just [whatever the brainy person said, in layman's terms]?
