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Loquacity

Lo-quac′i-ty

,
Noun.
[L.
loquacitas
: cf. F.
loquacité
.]
The habit or practice of talking continually or excessively; inclination to talk too much; talkativeness; garrulity.
Too great
loquacity
and too great taciturnity by fits.
Arbuthnot.

Definition 2024


loquacity

loquacity

English

Noun

loquacity (plural loquacities)

  1. Talkativeness; the quality of being loquacious.
    • 1887, George Bernard Shaw, An Unsocial Socialist, ch. 17:
      Their silence would have been awkward but for the loquacity of Jane, who talked enough for all three.
    • September 1924, W. Somerset Maugham, Mr KnowAll:
      Here was news for us, for Mr Kelada, with all his loquacity, had never told anyone what his business was.

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