LOQUACITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does loquacity mean? 

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

1. the quality of being wordy and talkative

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOQUACITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being wordy and talkative

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

garrulity; garrulousness; loquaciousness; loquacity; talkativeness

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

communicativeness (the trait of being communicative)

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

leresis (rambling talkativeness (especially in the aged))

Derivation:

loquacious (full of trivial conversation)

 Context examples 

The great novelist vibrated between two decanters with the regularity of a pendulum; the famous divine flirted openly with one of the Madame de Staels of the age, who looked daggers at another Corinne, who was amiably satirizing her, after outmaneuvering her in efforts to absorb the profound philosopher, who imbibed tea Johnsonianly and appeared to slumber, the loquacity of the lady rendering speech impossible.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)