loquacity

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: lo=quac=i=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

loquacity, n. [L. loquacitas: cf. F. loquacité.].

 The habit or practice of talking continually or excessively; inclination to talk too much; talkativeness; garrulity.  [1913 Webster]
"Too great loquacity and too great taciturnity by fits."  [1913 Webster]

DEVIL DICTIONARY

loquacity

n. A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk.

THESAURUS

loquacity

big mouth, candor, communicativeness, conversableness, effusion, effusiveness, flow of words, flowing tongue, fluency, fluent tongue, flux de bouche, flux de paroles, flux of words, frankness, garrulity, garrulousness, gassiness, gift of gab, glibness, gregariousness, gush, gushiness, long-windedness, loose tongue, loquaciousness, openness, prolixity, slush, sociability, spate of words, talkativeness, verbosity, volubility, windiness

ROGET THESAURUS

loquacity

Loquacity

N loquacity, loquaciousness, talkativeness, garrulity, multiloquence, much speaking, jaw, gabble, jabber, chatter, prate, prattle, cackle, clack, twaddle, twattle, rattle, caquet, caquetterie, blabber, bavardage, bibble-babble, gibble-gabble, small talk, fluency, flippancy, volubility, flowing, tongue, flow of words, flux de bouche, flux de mots, copia verborum, cacoethes loquendi, furor loquendi, verbosity, gift of the gab, talker, chatterer, chatterbox, babbler, rattle, ranter, sermonizer, proser, driveler, blatherskite, gossip, magpie, jay, parrot, poll, Babel, moulin a paroles, loquacious, talkative, garrulous, linguacious, multiloquous, largiloquent, chattering, chatty, declamatory, open-mouthed, fluent, voluble, glib, flippant, long tongued, long winded, trippingly on the tongue, glibly, off the reel, the tongue running fast, the tongue running loose, the tongue running on wheels, all talk and no cider, foul whisperings are abroad, what a spendthrift is he of his tongue!.