chattiness
Excessive friendly talking
Chattiness is the quality of talking freely and at length, often about unimportant matters.
It can be endearing or annoying depending on context: Her chattiness made the long car ride pass quickly.
The word suggests warmth and sociability more than substance.
Informal light conversation
- small talkPolite trivial conversation
- prattleTrivial, prolonged speech
- natterLight, aimless conversation
- gabbingTalking at length casually
banter · schmoozing · shooting the breeze · jawing · chinwagging · visiting · kibitzing · catching up
Incoherent speech
- blatherFoolish, pointless chatter
- jabberTalk rapidly, incoherently
- gabbleRapid, muddled talk
- yammerComplain loudly, persistently
yackety-yak · jibber-jabber · prattling · blabbering · motormouth · windbag · yakking · running off at the mouth
More words than necessary
- wordyUsing more language than necessary
- long-windedExcessively wordy, tediously so
- ramblingLong-winded and unfocused
- prolixExcessively wordy in speech
voluble · effusive · circumlocutory · periphrastic · grandiloquent · bombastic · pleonastic · turgid
Inclined to speak much
- outgoingSociable and unreserved
- gregariousFond of companionship
- friendlyShowing kindness, warmth
- extrovertedEnergized by social interaction
convivial · affable · animated · lively · bubbly · engaging · approachable · personable
chitchat
Informal light conversation
- small talkPolite trivial conversation
- prattleTrivial, prolonged speech
- natterLight, aimless conversation
gabbing · banter · schmoozing · shooting the breeze · jawing · chinwagging · visiting · kibitzing · catching up · gossip
babble
Incoherent speech
yammer · yackety-yak · jibber-jabber · prattling · blabbering · motormouth · windbag · yakking · running off at the mouth · going on and on
verbose
More words than necessary
- wordyUsing more language than necessary
- long-windedExcessively wordy, tediously so
- ramblingLong-winded and unfocused
prolix · voluble · effusive · circumlocutory · periphrastic · grandiloquent · bombastic · pleonastic · turgid · discursive
talkative
Inclined to speak much
- outgoingSociable and unreserved
- gregariousFond of companionship
- friendlyShowing kindness, warmth
extroverted · convivial · affable · animated · lively · bubbly · engaging · approachable · personable · warm
- sociabilityfriendliness, sociability, extroversion, congeniality, affability
- talkativenesstalkativeness, verbosity, wordiness, garrulity, loquacity
chattinesssilence
Total lack of sound
taciturnity · reticence · quietness · terseness · muteness
chattinessreticence
Habitual verbal restraint
reserve · inhibition · aloofness · guardedness · closedness
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