loquaciousness
Tendency toward verbosity
Loquaciousness is the quality of being talkative—using more words than necessary, often at length.
The word carries a slightly formal or literary tone and can suggest either charming volubility or tedious over-talking: His loquaciousness made him the life of the party or Her loquaciousness exhausted everyone in the room.
Incoherent speech
- prattleTrivial, prolonged speech
- chatterLight, rapid speech
- jabberTalk rapidly, incoherently
- gabbleRapid, muddled talk
blather · natter · yak · ramble · gossip · tattle · gab · chitchat
Tedious lengthiness in speech
- wordinessExcessive use of language
- long-windednessTedious verbal excess
- pleonasmRedundant expression
- diffusenessExcessive, unfocused expression
redundancy · logorrhea · turgidity · discursiveness · expansiveness · tautology · verbiage · superfluity
Smooth linguistic command
- articulatenessClarity in verbal expression
- volubilityExcessive verbal output
- glibnessInsincere verbal ease
- smoothnessFreedom from irregularity
persuasiveness · rhetoric · oratory · expressiveness · silver-tongued · well-spoken · gift of gab · way with words
Excessive, tedious talking
- chatterboxOne who talks incessantly
- blabbermouthOne who reveals secrets
- windbagOne who prattles endlessly
- motormouthNonstop rapid talker
chatterer · babbler · prattler · gossipmonger · yakker · magpie · gabber · jabberer
Love of being social
- affabilityWarm, friendly disposition
- outgoingnessInclination toward social interaction
- extroversionOutward-focused temperament
- convivialityWarm, sociable good cheer
friendliness · geniality · approachability · warmth · openness · expansiveness · effusiveness · exuberance
babble
Incoherent speech
gabble · blather · natter · yak · ramble · gossip · tattle · gab · chitchat · tittle-tattle
prolixity
Tedious lengthiness in speech
- wordinessExcessive use of language
- long-windednessTedious verbal excess
- pleonasmRedundant expression
diffuseness · redundancy · logorrhea · turgidity · discursiveness · expansiveness · tautology · verbiage · superfluity · rambling
fluency
Smooth linguistic command
- articulatenessClarity in verbal expression
- volubilityExcessive verbal output
- glibnessInsincere verbal ease
smoothness · persuasiveness · rhetoric · oratory · expressiveness · silver-tongued · well-spoken · gift of gab · way with words
garrulity
Excessive, tedious talking
- chatterboxOne who talks incessantly
- blabbermouthOne who reveals secrets
- windbagOne who prattles endlessly
motormouth · chatterer · babbler · prattler · gossipmonger · yakker · magpie · gabber · jabberer · big mouth
gregariousness
Love of being social
- affabilityWarm, friendly disposition
- outgoingnessInclination toward social interaction
- extroversionOutward-focused temperament
conviviality · friendliness · geniality · approachability · warmth · openness · expansiveness · effusiveness · exuberance · animation
loquaciousnesstaciturnity
Disinclined to speak
reticence · silence · quietness · terseness · laconicism
loquaciousnessreserve
Supply kept back
uncommunicativeness · reticence · introversion · closedness · secretiveness
eloquent, eloquence, loquacious, colloquial, soliloquy, grandiloquent, interlocutor, colloquialism, circumlocution