garrulity
/ɡaˈruːlɪti
/noun [mass noun]
Excessive talkativeness, especially on trivial matters: the character’s comic garrulity...
- He could have replied ‘no‘or ‘yes‘, but his natural garrulity drew him into a longer answer that initially seemed to contradict his earlier arguments.’
- The only occasion when our terseness transforms into garrulity is when we watch and discuss cricket.
- Swift employs what is fundamentally a trope of garrulity: a single voice is allowed to soliloquize at length.
Synonyms
talkativeness, garrulousness, loquacity, loquaciousness, volubility, verbosity, verboseness, long-windedness, wordiness, chattiness, effusiveness, profuseness, communicativeness, expansiveness
informal mouthiness, gabbiness, windiness, gassiness, yakking, big mouth, gift of the gab
British informal wittering
rare logorrhoea, multiloquence
Rhymes
- machine work
- machinima
- machining center
- machining centre
- machinist
- machinization
- machinofacture
- Machism
- machismo
- Machmeter
- Mach number
- macho
- machohood
- machoism
- macho man
- machometer
- machree
- Mach's angle
- Mach's principle
- Machtpolitik
- Machu Picchu
- Machupo
- Machupo virus
- Machzor
- Mach–Zehnder interferometer