The bane and curse against writers of all kinds. The habit of 'purple prose'. Perissology really has little place among good writers, except in examples of satire. Don't use perissology in business writing, official correspondence, correspondence of any kind, the writing of grants, the writing of emails; never use it on Twitter (they won't allow it); don't use if if you're writing fiction, or non fiction. If you write an essay with Perissology, people will stop reading before you get to the point. If you use it in a story, you'll put your readers to sleep. If you use it in scientific writing, no one will be able to understand what your saying.
But one time it is, sort of (but not quite) alright; though I would not encourage it, it can be done; acceptable to use a little preissology, is in a definition of perissology.
Though I think I've gone a little bit over-board.
Perissology is using too many words to say what you could have said in just a few.
A synonym for redundancy.
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