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overloquacity

overloquacity noun: excessive loquacity.

Noun

overloquacity (uncountable)

  1. Excessive loquacity.
    • But no wants to let the habit of overloquacity grow on her. She makes herself appear stupid, lacking in tact and in reverse when she is too lavish with her conversation.1906 January 7, Kate Masterson, “When Silence is Golden”, in Cleveland Plain Dealer, 65th year, number 7, Cleveland, Oh., →OCLC, Woman’s Magazine section, page 8, column 1
    • I am not fully in the confidence of my clients, but I gathered in some way that the basis of this claim lies in a certain—what shall we say?—overloquacity on your part. Ah, how often we lawyers are forced to realize the truth of the old maxim: ‘Silence is golden’!1923 August, Mrs. Wilson Woodrow [i.e., Nancy Mann Waddel Woodrow], “[…] Thoroughbred […]”, in Sewell Haggard, editor, Everybody’s Magazine, volume XLIX, number 2, New York, N.Y.: Ridgway Company...

Synonyms of overloquacity

Origin of overloquacity

From over- + loquacity.

Questions about overloquacity

What does overloquacity mean?
Overloquacity means excessive loquacity.
What part of speech is overloquacity?
Overloquacity is a noun.

Words near overloquacity in the dictionary

  1. overloosened
  2. overloosening
  3. overloosens
  4. overloquacious
  5. overloquaciousness
  6. overloquacity
  7. overlord
  8. overlorded
  9. overlording
  10. overlordliness
  11. overlords

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