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Webster 1913 Edition
Volubility
Volˊu-bil′i-ty
,Noun.
[L.
volubilitas
: cf. F. volubilité
.] The quality or state of being voluble (in any of the senses of the adjective).
Webster 1828 Edition
Volubility
VOLUBIL'ITY
,Noun.
1.
The capacity of being rolled; aptness to roll; as the volubility of a bowl.2.
The act of rolling.By irregular volutibility.
3.
Ready motion of the tongue in speaking; fluency of speech.She ran over the catalogue of diversions with such a volubility of tongue, as drew a gentle reprimand from her father.
4.
Mutability; liableness to revolution; as the volubility of human affairs. [Unusual.]Definition 2024
volubility
volubility
English
Noun
volubility (countable and uncountable, plural volubilities)
- (uncountable) the state of being voluble
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 36
- His volubility had left him at last, and he sank down wearily on my sofa. I felt that no words of condolence availed, and I let him lie there quietly.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 36
- (countable) the degree to which someone is voluble