Loquacity

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Loquacity \Lo*quac"i*ty\, n. [L. loquacitas: cf. F.
     loquacit['e].]
     The habit or practice of talking continually or excessively;
     inclination to talk too much; talkativeness; garrulity.
     [1913 Webster]
  


           Too great loquacity and too great taciturnity by fits.
                                                    --Arbuthnot.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  loquacity
       n : the quality of being wordy and talkative [syn: {garrulity},
           {garrulousness}, {loquaciousness}, {talkativeness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  34 Moby Thesaurus words for "loquacity":
     big mouth, candor, communicativeness, conversableness, effusion,
     effusiveness, flow of words, flowing tongue, fluency,
     fluent tongue, flux de bouche, flux de paroles, flux of words,
     frankness, garrulity, garrulousness, gassiness, gift of gab,
     glibness, gregariousness, gush, gushiness, long-windedness,
     loose tongue, loquaciousness, openness, prolixity, slush,
     sociability, spate of words, talkativeness, verbosity, volubility,
     windiness
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  LOQUACITY, n.  A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb
  his tongue when you wish to talk.