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volubility

volubility noun: the state of being voluble.

Noun

volubility (countable and uncountable, plural volubilities)

  1. (uncountable) the state of being voluble
    • His volubility had left him at last, and he sank down wearily on my sofa. I felt that no words of condolence availed, and I let him lie there quietly.1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 36”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC
    • But there is no help for him — or for us, his readers — no way for him to stop the chattering by which he means to make his meaning clear […] Freddie Greenfield is doomed, then, and we are doomed along with him, victims of his volubility.1976 December 18, Rudy Kikel, “The Doomsday Book by the Jewish Comedian”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 25, page 14
  2. (countable) the degree to which someone is voluble

volubility meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

volubility in Tamil

சரளமான பேச்சு

volubility in Urdu

کثرت الکلامی

volubility in Malayalam

വാചാലത, വാചകക്കസർത്ത്, തടസ്സമില്ലായ്മ

Forms of volubility

pluralvolubilities

Origin of volubility

From Latin volūbilitās. By surface analysis, voluble + -ity.

Questions about volubility

What does volubility mean?
Volubility means the state of being voluble.
What is volubility in Tamil?
Volubility in Tamil is சரளமான பேச்சு. See Volubility meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is volubility?
Volubility is a noun.
What is the plural of volubility?
The plural of volubility is volubilities.

Words near volubility in the dictionary

  1. voltzite
  2. volubilate
  3. volubile
  4. Volubilis
  5. volubilities
  6. volubility
  7. volubiloside
  8. voluble
  9. volubleness
  10. volubly
  11. Voluck

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Adapted from Wiktionary: volubility (page history and authors); volubility (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); volubility (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); volubility (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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