communicativeness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

communicative +‎ -ness

Noun[edit]

communicativeness (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of being communicative.
    • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 103:
      Her brief spurt of communicativeness lapsed suddenly, as if these market-values of her goods might be telling too much about herself.