loquacity
nounUS /loʊˈkwæsɪti/
Etymology From Middle French loquacité, from Latin loquācitās (whence -acity), from loquor (“to say, speak, tell, talk, utter”).
1
Talkativeness; the quality of being loquacious.
- A man that were ſo diſpoſed, may ſeeme in reaſon to reproove […] the loquacity of Euripides, […]1603, Plutarch, “Of Hearing”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC, page 60, lines 1–3:
- Neither is eloquence or rhetoric unclaimed by him: he perſuaded with Stentorian loquacity, and convinces by the irreſiſtible powers of a bellowing horſe laugh.1771 April, A Candidate Doctor of Oddities [pseudonym], “To the Printer of the Town and Country Magazine”, in The Town and Country Magazine; or, Universal Repository of Knowledge, Instruction, and Entertainment, volume III, London: […] A[rchibald] Hamilton, Junʳ. […], →OCLC, page 202, column 1:
2 more examples
- Their silence would have been awkward but for the loquacity of Jane, who talked enough for all three.1887, George Bernard Shaw, chapter 17, in An Unsocial Socialist:
- Here was news for us, for Mr Kelada, with all his loquacity, had never told anyone what his business was.1924, W. Somerset Maugham, “Mr Know‐All”, in Good Housekeeping:
- Synonyms
- loquaciousness
- Related terms
- loquacious