Meanings
- uncountableThe quality of being talkative.
Talkability: defined, 54, 55; a talkable person, 56; contrasted with talkativity, 57; […]
1899, Henry van Dyke, “Index”, in Fisherman’s Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 246, column 13 more examples
Our costly mistakes have been when we mistook plausibility for ability and talkativity for talent.
1923 September 17, “Men and Things”, in Evening State Journal, 34th year, Lincoln, Neb., →OCLC, page 12, column 1This picture, though taken directly from the stage play that won the Pulitzer prize for 1927, is one of those that have reached only the partial or hesitant stage of talkativity. Its silent passages are somewhat longer than the vocal ones.
1929 May 20, “Earle”, in The Washington Post, number 19,331, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 16, column 5Contact with dementia or other forms of severe cognitive disability can – and indeed should – take us out of our customary patterns of over-busyness, hypercognitivism and extreme talkativity, into a way of being in which emotion and feeling are given a much larger place.
1997, Tom Kitwood, “Introduction”, in Dementia Reconsidered: The Person Comes First (Rethinking Ageing), Maidenhead, Berkshire; New York, N.Y.: Open University Press, published 2011, →ISBN, page 5Synonyms: talkativeness, chattiness, diarrhea of the mouth, garrulity, garrulousness, logorrhea, logorrhoea, loquaciousness
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe quality of being talkative.
Origin
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