loquacity
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Etymology edit
From Latin loquacitas.
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loquacity (countable and uncountable, plural loquacities)
- Talkativeness; the quality of being loquacious.
- 1887, George Bernard Shaw, chapter 17, in An Unsocial Socialist:
- Their silence would have been awkward but for the loquacity of Jane, who talked enough for all three.
- 1924, W. Somerset Maugham, “Mr Know‐All”, in Good Housekeeping:
- Here was news for us, for Mr Kelada, with all his loquacity, had never told anyone what his business was.
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talkativeness
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