Thesaurus:talkativeness

Thesaurus

talkativeness

English

Noun

Sense: the state of excessive speech; of talking too much

Synonyms

• chattiness
• diarrhea of the mouth
• garrulity
• garrulousness
• logorrhea
• logorrhoea
• loquaciousness
• loquacity
• multiloquence
• talkativeness
• verbal diarrhea
• verbal diarrhoea

Antonyms

• curtness
• reticence
• taciturnity

Hypernyms

• excess    [⇒ thesaurus]
• talk    [⇒ thesaurus]
• prolixity
• verbosity    [⇒ thesaurus]
• wordiness

See also

• Thesaurus:talkative

Further reading

• “584. loquacity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “loquacity” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.