loquacity

Roget category 584

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.10. Means of communicating ideas
›› 4.10.2. Conventional means

#584. Loquacity

noun

loquacity, loquaciousness — talkativeness etc. adj. — garrulity — multiloquence^†, much speaking.
jaw — gabble — jabber, chatter — prate, prattle, cackle, clack — twaddle, twattle, rattle — caquet^†, caquetterie [Fr.] — blabber, bavardage^†, bibble-babble^†, gibble-gabble^† — small talk etc. (converse) 588.
fluency, flippancy, volubility, flowing, tongue — flow of words — flux de bouche [Fr.], flux de mots [Fr.] — copia verborum [Lat.], cacoethes loquendi [Lat.] — furor loquendi [Lat.] — verbosity etc. (diffuseness) 573 — gift of the gab etc. (eloquence) 582.
talker — chatterer, chatterbox — babbler etc. v. — rattle — ranter — sermonizer, proser^†, driveler — blatherskite [U.S.] — gossip etc. (converse) 588 — magpie, jay, parrot, poll, Babel — moulin a paroles [Fr.].

verb

be loquacious etc. adj. — 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 etc. (speak at length) 573 — gossip etc. (converse) 588 — din in the ears etc. (repeat) 104 — talk at random, talk nonsense etc. 497 — be hoarse with talking.

adjective

loquacious, talkative, garrulous, linguacious^†, multiloquous^† — largiloquent^† — chattering etc. v. — chatty etc. (sociable) 892 — declamatory etc. 582 — open-mouthed.
fluent, voluble, glib, flippant — long tongued, long winded etc. (diffuse) 573.

adverb

trippingly on the tongue — glibly etc. adj. — off the reel.

phrase

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 he of his tongue! " [Tempest].

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