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Webster 1913 Edition
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)
- 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 Know‐All:
- Here was news for us, for Mr Kelada, with all his loquacity, had never told anyone what his business was.
- 1887, George Bernard Shaw, An Unsocial Socialist, ch. 17:
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talkativeness
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