loquacity
Tendency toward verbosity
Loquacity is the quality of talking a great deal.
The word carries a mild note of excess—someone marked by loquacity isn't just chatty but perhaps excessively so: His loquacity made meetings run long.
The adjective is loquacious.
Light, rapid speech
- gabLight, meaningless talk
- gabbleRapid, muddled talk
- jabberTalk rapidly, incoherently
- prattleTrivial, prolonged speech
natter · blather · yak · yammer · yap · chitchat · small talk · banter
Tendency toward friendly interaction
- extroversionOutward-focused temperament
- affabilityWarm, friendly disposition
- convivialityWarm, sociable good cheer
- outgoingnessInclination toward social interaction
friendliness · volubility · garrulousness · expansiveness · openness · approachability · warmth · effusiveness
Excessive use of language
- prolixityTedious lengthiness in speech
- long-windednessTedious verbal excess
- diffusenessExcessive, unfocused expression
- redundancyNeedless duplication
pleonasm · tautology · logorrhea · rambling · windiness · grandiloquence · bombast · floridity
Smooth linguistic command
- articulationClear vocal expression
- expressivenessAbility to convey emotion
- rhetoricArt of persuasive language
- oratoryFormal eloquent discourse
persuasion · diction · silver-tongued · well-spoken · smooth-talking · gift of gab · way with words · glibness
chatter
Light, rapid speech
prattle · natter · blather · yak · yammer · yap · chitchat · small talk · banter · schmooze
sociability
Tendency toward friendly interaction
- extroversionOutward-focused temperament
- affabilityWarm, friendly disposition
- convivialityWarm, sociable good cheer
outgoingness · friendliness · volubility · garrulousness · expansiveness · openness · approachability · warmth · effusiveness
wordiness
Excessive use of language
- prolixityTedious lengthiness in speech
- long-windednessTedious verbal excess
- diffusenessExcessive, unfocused expression
redundancy · pleonasm · tautology · logorrhea · rambling · windiness · grandiloquence · bombast · floridity · expansiveness
fluency
Smooth linguistic command
- articulationClear vocal expression
- expressivenessAbility to convey emotion
- rhetoricArt of persuasive language
oratory · persuasion · diction · silver-tongued · well-spoken · smooth-talking · gift of gab · way with words · glibness · mellifluousness
- talkativenesstalkativeness, verbosity, wordiness, garrulity, long-windedness
- blatherbabble, balderdash, baloney, blarney, blather
- sociabilityfriendliness, sociability, extroversion, congeniality, affability
- circumlocutionindirection, indirectness, roundabout, roundaboutness, verbosity
loquacitysilence
Total lack of sound
taciturnity · terseness · muteness · quietness · brevity
loquacityreticence
Habitual verbal restraint
taciturnity · reserve · uncommunicativeness · secretiveness · unresponsiveness