loquacity
/ləˈkwasɪti
/noun [mass noun]
The quality of talking a great deal; talkativeness: he was renowned for loquacity...
- They had the generosity, the charm, the loquacity of visiting uncles.
- Possibly because, as the deputy chief of investigations admitted, his sudden loquacity might well get him a few years off his sentence.
- I flagged down a passing brother, knowing by now that the old vows of silence had given way to a smiling loquacity.
Synonyms
talkativeness, over-talkativeness, garrulousness, garrulity, volubility, long-windedness, wordiness, prolixity, verbosity, verbiage, effusiveness, profuseness;
chattiness, chattering, babble, blathering, gibbering
informal the gift of the gab, yackety-yak, yakking, big mouth, blah-blah, gabbiness, gassiness
rare logorrhoea, multiloquence
