After many minutes searching on Dictionary.com for the right word to define me, I figured this one suits me the best; circumlocution.
circumlocution \sir-kuhm-loh-KYOO-shuhn\, noun:
The use of many words to express an idea that might be expressed by few; indirect or roundabout language. Now, we are going to try vis medicatrix naturae* during your final days in the hospital.
*. . . the healing power of nature.
I explain myself as circumlocution because I speak that way often when I haven't thought things through, most of the time. Also, I like not to be straightforward and actually go the longest way to explain any idea for fun. The definition is that the suffix circum- means around and -locution means to express a phrase. To me it means that its explaining something the longest way because the shortest way is unavailable at that moment.
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nice bloog.
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