loquacity

English

Etymology

From Latin loquācitās.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /loʊˈkwæsɪti/
• Rhymes: -æsɪti

Noun

loquacity (countable and uncountable, plural loquacities)

1. Talkativeness; the quality of being loquacious.
   • 1887, George Bernard Shaw, chapter 17, in An Unsocial Socialist:

     Their silence would have been awkward but for the loquacity of Jane, who talked enough for all three.

   • 1924, W. Somerset Maugham, “Mr Know‐All”, in Good Housekeeping:

     Here was news for us, for Mr Kelada, with all his loquacity, had never told anyone what his business was.

Synonyms

• loquaciousness

Related terms

• loquacious

Translations

talkativeness

• Catalan: loquacitat (ca) f
• Dutch: spraakzaamheid (nl) f
• Esperanto: parolemo
• Finnish: puheliaisuus (fi)
• French: loquacité (fr) f
• Galician: locuacidade (gl) f
• Georgian: ყბედობა (q̇bedoba)
• German: Schwatzhaftigkeit (de) f, Geschwätzigkeit (de) f, Gesprächigkeit (de) f, Redseligkeit (de)
• Irish: cabaireacht f
• Italian: loquacità (it) f
• Latvian: runība f, valodība f, pļāpība f, pļāpīgums m, runīgums m, valodīgums m
• Norwegian: snakkesalighet
• Portuguese: loquacidade (pt) f
• Russian: говорли́вость (ru) f (govorlívostʹ), словоохо́тливость (ru) f (slovooxótlivostʹ), болтли́вость (ru) f (boltlívostʹ), разгово́рчивость (ru) f (razgovórčivostʹ)
• Spanish: locuacidad (es) f
• Volapük: spikotäl (vo), spikodiäl