| Main Entry: | loquacity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | talkativeness |
Synonyms: |
garrulity, logorrhea, prolixity, verboseness |
| Concept: | Loquacity. |
| Category: | 2. Conventional Means; Spoken Language |
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-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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| Main Entry: | eloquence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | skillful way with words |
Synonyms: |
ability, appeal, articulation, command of language, delivery, diction, dramatic, expression, expressiveness, expressivity, facility, fervor, flow, fluency, force, forcefulness, gift of gab, grandiloquence, loquacity, meaningfulness, mellifluousness, oration, oratory, passion, persuasiveness, poise, power, rhetoric, spirit, style, vigor, vivacity, volubility, wit, wittiness |
Antonyms: |
dullness, inarticulateness |
| Main Entry: | gab |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conversation |
Synonyms: |
blab, blather, chat, chitchat, gossip, idle talk, loquacity, palaver*, prattle, small talk, talk, tongue-wagging, tête-à-tête, yak, yakkety-yak |
Antonyms: |
silence |
| Main Entry: | verbiage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | repetition, wordiness |
Synonyms: |
circumlocution, expansiveness, floridity, long-windedness, loquacity, periphrase, periphrasis, pleonasm, prolixity, redundancy, tautology, verbosity |
Antonyms: |
conciseness |
| Main Entry: | verbosity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wordiness |
Synonyms: |
garrulous, logorrhea, long-windedness, loquaciousness, loquacity, prolixity, talkativeness, verbiage, 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: | eloquentness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | eloquence |
Synonyms: |
articulacy, articulateness, articulation, diction, expressiveness, expressivity, facundity, fluency, loquacity, oration, oratory, rhetoric |
| Main Entry: | expressiveness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | eloquence |
Synonyms: |
articulacy, articulateness, articulation, diction, eloquentness, expressivity, facundity, fluency, loquacity, oration, oratory, rhetoric |