COMMUNICATIVENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does communicativeness mean? 

• COMMUNICATIVENESS (noun)
  The noun COMMUNICATIVENESS has 1 sense:

1. the trait of being communicative

  Familiarity information: COMMUNICATIVENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMUNICATIVENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The trait of being communicative

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("communicativeness" is a kind of...):

trait (a distinguishing feature of your personal nature)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "communicativeness"):

frankness; outspokenness (the trait of being blunt and outspoken)

effusiveness; expansiveness; expansivity (a friendly open trait of a talkative person)

articulateness; fluency; volubility (the quality of being facile in speech and writing)

garrulity; garrulousness; loquaciousness; loquacity; talkativeness (the quality of being wordy and talkative)

Antonym:

uncommunicativeness (the trait of being uncommunicative)

Derivation:

communicative (able or tending to communicate)

 Context examples 

Mr. Gardiner, whose manners were very easy and pleasant, encouraged her communicativeness by his questions and remarks; Mrs. Reynolds, either by pride or attachment, had evidently great pleasure in talking of her master and his sister.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I made my humblest acknowledgment to this illustrious person, for his great communicativeness; and promised, if ever I had the good fortune to return to my native country, that I would do him justice, as the sole inventor of this wonderful machine; the form and contrivance of which I desired leave to delineate on paper, as in the figure here annexed.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)