gabbiness
Tendency toward rambling
Gabbiness is the quality of talking too much, especially about unimportant things.
Someone with gabbiness chatters on without much concern for whether their listener is interested.
Her gabbiness made short phone calls impossible.
The word carries a mildly critical tone, suggesting the talk is more annoying than harmful.
Incoherent speech
- prattleTrivial, prolonged speech
- gossipInformal talk spreading rumors
- blabberRamble without substance
- natterLight, aimless conversation
jabber · yak · chitchat · tittle-tattle · blather · small talk · clack · palaver
Excessive verbal output
- garrulityExcessive, tedious talking
- talkativenessInclination to speak extensively
- effusivenessUnrestrained emotional expression
- expansivenessQuality of great extent
logorrhea · motormouth · chatty · talkative · blabby · mouthy · forthcoming · unreserved
Excessive use of language
- long-windednessTedious verbal excess
- prolixityTedious lengthiness in speech
- circumlocutionIndirect, wordy expression
- redundancyNeedless duplication
rambling · discursiveness · diffuseness · digressive · tautological · superfluous · protracted · overwrought
babble
Incoherent speech
natter · jabber · yak · chitchat · tittle-tattle · blather · small talk · clack · palaver · blether
volubility
Excessive verbal output
- garrulityExcessive, tedious talking
- talkativenessInclination to speak extensively
- effusivenessUnrestrained emotional expression
expansiveness · logorrhea · motormouth · chatty · talkative · blabby · mouthy · forthcoming · unreserved · communicative
wordiness
Excessive use of language
- long-windednessTedious verbal excess
- prolixityTedious lengthiness in speech
- circumlocutionIndirect, wordy expression
redundancy · rambling · discursiveness · diffuseness · digressive · tautological · superfluous · protracted · overwrought · overtalking
gabbinessreserve
Supply kept back
introversion · guardedness · secretiveness · aloofness · shyness
gab, gabby, gabble, gabbler, gabbing, gabs, gabbled, gabbles, gabber