# Payload Verbosity

> The degree to which embedding self-description in responses enlarges their payloads.

Record: `lexicon:payload-verbosity`
Kind: quality-attribute
Layer: [Declarative Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/declarative-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-payload-verbosity

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Metadata Drift](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/metadata-drift.md) and before [Self-Description](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/self-description.md).

## Category

- [Metadata / Self-Description / Declarative Systems](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/metadata-self-description-declarative-systems.md)

## In tension with

- [Self-Describing API](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/self-describing-api.md)
- [Self-Describing API / Payload Verbosity](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/payload-verbosity-self-describing-api.md)

## Linked from

- [Metadata / Self-Description / Declarative Systems](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-metadata-self-description-declarative-systems.md)
- [The resolutions](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-resolutions.md)