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unloquaciousness

unloquaciousness noun: the quality of being unloquacious.

Noun

unloquaciousness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being unloquacious.
    • We perhaps owe to a boy actor who happened to have a beautiful singing voice the moving snatches of song he gave to the distracted Ophelia and the heart-rending beauty of Desdemona’s Willow Song. Perhaps his voice had cracked when Shakespeare wrote King Lear, and Cordelia’s beautiful silence, her...1968 October, Helen Gardner, “Shakespearian Tragedy”, in Religion and Literature, London: Faber and Faber […], section “Religion and Tragedy: The T. S. Eliot Memorial Lectures, Delivered at Eliot...
    • He was off to rescue any number of less fortunate people, many of them darker than himself. His conventional manners stood for order, and his unloquaciousness was the modesty of the doomed.1987, Mavis Gallant, “Its Image on the Mirror”, in Douglas Daymond, Leslie Monkman, editors, On Middle Ground: Novellas by Clark Blaise, Keath Fraser, Mavis Gallant, Malcolm Lowry, John Metcalf...

Examples of unloquaciousness in a sentence

  • Sir Brian Horrocks, who served under Wavell in the 2d Division and admired him greatly, nevertheless refers to his unloquaciousness as an “almost pathological taciturnity.”1988, Harold R. Winton, “The Quest for a Mobile Division, 1934–1938”, in To Change an Army: General Sir John Burnett-Stuart and British...
  • Mean-times, spelling and pronunciation are horrendously uncircumvoluted and the English vocabulary simply oozes with unloquaciousness.2007, David F. Latham, “English Difficult? Au Contraire”, in American Rambler: 48 Original, Hilarious, Laugh-Out-Loud Newspapers Columns...

Origin of unloquaciousness

From unloquacious + -ness.

Questions about unloquaciousness

What does unloquaciousness mean?
Unloquaciousness means the quality of being unloquacious.
How do you use unloquaciousness in a sentence?
Sir Brian Horrocks, who served under Wavell in the 2d Division and admired him greatly, nevertheless refers to his unloquaciousness as an “almost pathological taciturnity.”
What part of speech is unloquaciousness?
Unloquaciousness is a noun.

Words near unloquaciousness in the dictionary

  1. unloosing
  2. unlootable
  3. unlooted
  4. unlopped
  5. unloquacious
  6. unloquaciousness
  7. unlord
  8. unlorded
  9. unlording
  10. unlordly
  11. unlords

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