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| Main Entry: |
loquacity
 [loh-kwas-i-tee] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | talkativeness |
| Synonyms: | garrulity, logorrhea, prolixity, verboseness |
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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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Example Sentences
- It's probably less a matter of loquacity than self-importance.
- For communications companies, human loquacity should be wonderful news.
- The drastic distance between gossip, the libertine loquacity of the dinner.
| 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 |
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