SuaviloquyToday’s word

diffuseness

Diffuseness, n.

The quality of being diffuse; especially, in writing, the use of a great or excessive number of word to express the meaning; copiousness; verbosity; prolixity.

Shades of meaning

Fernald has no entry of its own for diffuseness; he lists it under circumlocution.

Where he writes about it:

Etymologically, diffuseness is a scattering, both of words and thought; redundancy is an overflow. — from circumlocution