loquacity
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle French loquacité, from Latin loquācitās.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /loʊˈkwæsɪti/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -æsɪti
Noun
[edit]loquacity (countable and uncountable, plural loquacities)
- 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, Junr. […], →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.
Synonyms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]talkativeness — see also talkativeness
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References
[edit]- ^ “loquacity, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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