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loquacity

noun

  1. personality trait: propensity to talk often and verbosely
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Pronunciation: /loʊˈkwæsɪti/

noun

Etymology: From Middle French loquacité, from Latin loquācitās.

  1. Talkativeness; the quality of being loquacious.

    A man that were ſo diſpoſed, may ſeeme in reaſon to reproove […] the loquacity of Euripides, […]

    Neither is eloquence or rhetoric unclaimed by him: he perſuaded with Stentorian loquacity, and convinces by the irreſiſtible powers of a bellowing horſe laugh.