| Main Entry: | garrulity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | loquacity |
Synonyms: |
chattiness, garrulousness, glibness, grandiloquence, logorrhea, long-windedness, loquaciousness, prolixity, talkativeness, verboseness, verbosity, volubility, wordiness |
| Main Entry: | loquacity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | talkativeness |
Synonyms: |
garrulity, logorrhea, prolixity, verboseness |
| Main Entry: | wordiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | verbosity |
Synonyms: |
circumlocution, copiousness, diffuseness, diffusion, garrulity, logorrhea, long-windedness, loquaciousness, loquacity, pleonasm, prolixity, redundance, redundancy, repetition, rhetoric, tautology, verbiage, verboseness, windiness |
Antonyms: |
directness, straightforwardness, terseness |
| Main Entry: | wordiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excessive in language |
Synonyms: |
catalogic, circumlocution, diffuseness, diffusion, fecundity, garrulity, logorrhea, loquaciousness, loquacity, macrology, officialese, periphrasis, pleonasm, prolixity, redundancy, tautology, verbality, verbiage, verbigeration, verbomania, verbosity |
Antonyms: |
conciseness |
| Main Entry: | pleonasm |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wordiness |
Synonyms: |
circumlocution, copiousness, diffuseness, diffusion, garrulity, logorrhea, long-windedness, loquaciousness, loquacity, prolixity, redundance, redundancy, repetition, rhetoric, tautology, verbiage, verboseness, verbosity, windiness, wordage |
| Main Entry: | prolixity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wordiness |
Synonyms: |
circumlocution, copiousness, diffuseness, diffusion, garrulity, logorrhea, long-windedness, loquaciousness, loquacity, pleonasm, redundance, redundancy, repetition, rhetoric, tautology, verbiage, verboseness, verbosity, windiness, wordage |
| Main Entry: | verboseness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wordiness |
Synonyms: |
circumlocution, copiousness, diffuseness, diffusion, garrulity, logorrhea, long-windedness, loquaciousness, loquacity, pleonasm, prolixity, redundance, redundancy, repetition, rhetoric, tautology, verbiage, verbosity, windiness, wordage |
| Main Entry: | prolixity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
ambagious, circumlocutory, copious, diffuse, digressive, discursive, episodic, excursive, exuberant, flatulent, frothy, largiloquent, lengthy, long, long, long drawn out, longsome, maundering, periphrastic, pleonastic, profuse, prolix, prosing, protracted, rambling, roundabout, spun out, verbose, wordy
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| Concept: | Loquacity. |
| Category: | 2. Conventional Means; Spoken Language |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
loquacity, loquaciousness; talkativeness; garrulity; multiloquence, much speaking. jaw; gabble; jabber, chatter; prate, prattle, cackle, clack; twaddle, twattle, rattle; caquet, caquetterie; blabber, bavardage, bibble-babble, gibble-gabble; small talk (converse)., fluency, flippancy, volubility, flowing, tongue; flow of words; flux de bouche, flux de mots; copia verborum, cacoethes loquendi; furor loquendi; verbosity (diffuseness); gift of the gab (eloquence)., talker; chatterer, chatterbox; babbler; rattle; ranter; sermonizer, proser, driveler; blatherskite [U.S.]; gossip (converse); magpie, jay, parrot, poll, Babel; moulin a paroles..
-verbs
be loquacious; talk glibly, pour forth, patter; prate, palaver, prose, chatter, prattle, clack, jabber, jaw; blather, blatter, blether; rattle, rattle on; twaddle, twattle; babble, gabble; outtalk; talk oneself out of breath, talk oneself hoarse; expatiate (speak at length); gossip (converse); din in the ears (repeat); talk at random, talk nonsense [more]; be hoarse with talking.
-adjectives
loquacious, talkative, garrulous, linguacious, multiloquous; largiloquent; chattering; chatty (sociable); declamatory; open-mouthed., fluent, voluble, glib, flippant; long tongued, long winded (diffuse) [more].
-adverbs
trippingly on the tongue; glibly; off the reel.
-phrases
the tongue running fast, the tongue running loose, the tongue running on wheels; all talk and no cider; "foul whisperings are abroad" [Macbeth]; "what a spendthrift is
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