loquacity

From Latin loquācitās.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /loʊˈkwæsɪti/
• Rhymes: -æsɪti

loquacity (countable and uncountable, plural loquacities)

1. Talkativeness; the quality of being loquacious.
   • 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.

• loquaciousness

• loquacious