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COMMUNICATIVENESS
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I. (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)