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LOQUACIOUSNESS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being wordy and talkative

Synonyms:

garrulity; garrulousness; loquaciousness; loquacity; talkativeness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

communicativeness (the trait of being communicative)

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

leresis (rambling talkativeness (especially in the aged))

Derivation:

loquacious (full of trivial conversation)

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