loquacity

From Middle French loquacité, from Latin loquācitās.^[1]

• (General American) IPA^(key): /loʊˈkwæsɪti/

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• Rhymes: -æsɪti

loquacity (countable and uncountable, plural loquacities)

1. Talkativeness; the quality of being loquacious.
   • 1603, Plutarch, “Of Hearing”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC, page 60, lines 1–3:

     A man that were ſo diſpoſed, may ſeeme in reaſon to reproove […] the loquacity of Euripides, […]

   • 1771 April, A Candidate Doctor of Oddities [pseudonym], “To the Printer of the Town and Country Magazine”, in The Town and Country Magazine; or, Universal Repository of Knowledge, Instruction, and Entertainment, volume III, London: […] A[rchibald] Hamilton, Jun^r. […], →OCLC, page 202, column 1:

     Neither is eloquence or rhetoric unclaimed by him: he perſuaded with Stentorian loquacity, and convinces by the irreſiſtible powers of a bellowing horſe laugh.

   • 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.

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