Fluff (Filler Words)
Micro-semantics (passage level)Fluff (filler words) are sentences with no informational value: generalities, rhetorical questions, evaluative adjectives, modal words ('maybe', 'perhaps', 'probably') that lower Information Density and increase Cost of Retrieval. Examples: 'In today's world...', 'It's worth noting that...', 'This is enormously important'. Google pays with resources for processing each sentence; fluff is pure cost without value.
In a CQS audit, each fluff sentence receives a -1.0 penalty in the Information Density dimension. Fluff is the opposite of Atomic Claims—if a sentence can't be verified or yield an EAV triple, it's fluff.
In practice, review your article sentence by sentence and ask 'can I extract an EAV triple from this sentence?' If not, remove it or replace with a fact. Alternatively, use information density measurement tools that automatically detect sentences with low density.