Library / English Dictionary

TALKATIVENESS

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 ("talkativeness" is a kind of...):

communicativeness (the trait of being communicative)

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

leresis (rambling talkativeness (especially in the aged))

Derivation:

talkative (friendly and open and willing to talk)

talkative (unwisely talking too much)

talkative (full of trivial conversation)

Credits