Dictionary

loquacity en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /loʊˈkwæsɪti/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Middle French loquacité, from Latin loquācitās (whence -acity), from loquor (“to say, speak, tell, talk, utter”).

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Talkativeness; the quality of being loquacious.
   • A man that were ſo diſpoſed, may ſeeme in reaſon to reproove […] the loquacity of Euripides, […] 1603, Plutarch, “Of Hearing”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC, page 60, lines 1–3:
   • Here was news for us, for Mr Kelada, with all his loquacity, had never told anyone what his business was. 1924, W. Somerset Maugham, “Mr Know‐All”, in Good Housekeeping:
   • Neither is eloquence or rhetoric unclaimed by him: he perſuaded with Stentorian loquacity, and convinces by the irreſiſtible powers of a bellowing horſe laugh. 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:
   • Their silence would have been awkward but for the loquacity of Jane, who talked enough for all three. 1887, George Bernard Shaw, chapter 17, in An Unsocial Socialist:

Forms

Relateds

loquacious

Synonyms

loquaciousness

Translations (32)

lv valodīgums (talkativeness — see also talkativeness) · pt loquacidade (talkativeness — see also talkativeness) · ga cabaireacht (talkativeness — see also talkativeness) · ka ყბედობა (talkativeness — see also talkativeness) · fr loquacité (talkativeness — see also talkativeness) · de Geschwätzigkeit (talkativeness — see also talkativeness) · ru словоохо́тливость (talkativeness — see also talkativeness) · pl gadatliwość (talkativeness — see also talkativeness) · am ለፍላፊነት (talkativeness — see also talkativeness) · ca loquacitat (talkativeness — see also talkativeness) · de Redseligkeit (talkativeness — see also talkativeness) · lv pļāpīgums (talkativeness — see also talkativeness) · lv pļāpība (talkativeness — see also talkativeness) · gl locuacidade (talkativeness — see also talkativeness) · lv runīgums (talkativeness — see also talkativeness) · la loquācitās (talkativeness — see also talkativeness) · lv runība (talkativeness — see also talkativeness) · it loquacità (talkativeness — see also talkativeness) · ru разгово́рчивость (talkativeness — see also talkativeness) · eo parolemo (talkativeness — see also talkativeness) · no snakkesalighet (talkativeness — see also talkativeness) · fi puheliaisuus (talkativeness — see also talkativeness) · vo spikodiäl (talkativeness — see also talkativeness) · pl wielomówność (talkativeness — see also talkativeness) · nl spraakzaamheid (talkativeness — see also talkativeness) · vo spikotäl (talkativeness — see also talkativeness) · de Schwatzhaftigkeit (talkativeness — see also talkativeness) · lv valodība (talkativeness — see also talkativeness) · de Gesprächigkeit (talkativeness — see also talkativeness) · ru болтли́вость (talkativeness — see also talkativeness) · es locuacidad (talkativeness — see also talkativeness) · ru говорли́вость (talkativeness — see also talkativeness)