the manner in which something is expressed in words
<noun.communication> use concise military verbiage
Verbiage \Ver"bi*age\ (?; 48), n. [F. verbiage, from OF. verbe a word. See {Verb}.] The use of many words without necessity, or with little sense; a superabundance of words; verbosity; wordiness.
Verbiage may indicate observation, but not thinking. --W. Irving.
This barren verbiage current among men. --Tennyson.
But what is driving the verbiage is a computer in his head.
Even the most prestigious are booby-trapped with jargon that reduces simple ideas to properly academic tangles of verbiage.
Bush's moving target for ground rules on what constitutes a picture-taking session, or so-called "photo op," and what constitutes a news conference, has led to some convoluted presidential verbiage.
I like all that verbiage, long passages of technical dialogue.
Sarney was very clear and open," without the customary diplomatic verbiage, and Quayle was the same way, de Almeida said.