Meaning of LOQUACITY
| Pronunciation: | | low'kwasitee
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| | Definition: | | [n] the quality of being wordy and talkative |
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| | Synonyms: | | garrulity, garrulousness, loquaciousness, talkativeness |
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| | See Also: | | communicativeness, leresis | |
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| | Definition: | | \Lo*quac"i*ty\, n. [L. loquacitas: cf. F.
loquacit['e].]
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.
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| | Related Terms: | | big mouth, candor, communicativeness, conversableness, effusion, effusiveness, flow of words, flowing tongue, fluency, fluent tongue, flux de bouche, flux de paroles, flux of words, frankness, garrulity, garrulousness, gassiness, gift of gab, glibness, gregariousness, gush, gushiness, long-windedness, loose tongue, loquaciousness, openness, prolixity, slush, sociability, spate of words, talkativeness, verbosity, volubility, windiness |
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