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| Main Entry: | |
| 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
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 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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