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loquacity

US/loʊˈkwæsɪti/

loquacity noun: talkativeness; the quality of being loquacious.

Noun

loquacity (countable and uncountable, plural loquacities)

  1. 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
    • 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...
    Synonyms:
    loquaciousness

loquacity meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

loquacity in Tamil

சளசளவெனப் பேசல்

loquacity in Malayalam

talkativeness, volubility, expansiveness
അതിഭാഷണം, വായാടിത്തം, മുഖചാപല്യം, വായാടിത്തരം, വാഗ്ദ്ധാടി, വാചാലത

Examples of loquacity in a sentence

  • 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:
  • 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:

Synonyms of loquacity

Forms of loquacity

pluralloquacities

Origin of loquacity

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

Words that rhyme with loquacity

Questions about loquacity

What does loquacity mean?
Loquacity means talkativeness; the quality of being loquacious.
What is loquacity in Tamil?
Loquacity in Tamil is சளசளவெனப் பேசல். See Loquacity meaning in Tamil.
How do you use loquacity in a sentence?
Their silence would have been awkward but for the loquacity of Jane, who talked enough for all three.
What part of speech is loquacity?
Loquacity is a noun.
How do you pronounce loquacity?
Loquacity is pronounced /loʊˈkwæsɪti/ (US).
What is the plural of loquacity?
The plural of loquacity is loquacities.

Words near loquacity in the dictionary

  1. LOQs
  2. loquacious
  3. loquaciously
  4. loquaciousness
  5. loquacities
  6. loquacity
  7. loquat
  8. loquatious
  9. loquatiousness
  10. loquats
  11. loqued out

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Adapted from Wiktionary: loquacity (page history and authors); loquacity (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); loquacity (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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