garrulity

[ guh-roo-li-tee ]

noun

1. the quality of being garrulous; talkativeness; loquacity.

Other Words From

• nongar·ruli·ty noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of garrulity¹

1575–85; < French garrulité < Latin garrulitās. See garrulous, -ity

Example Sentences

Like others afflicted with chronic garrulity, Biden often overstates, misstates and exaggerates.

From Seattle Times

Third, the correspondence can be read as an extended conversation between two gods on Mount Olympus because both men were determined to project that impression: “But wither is senile garrulity leading me?”

From Literature

Adams then responded with his own display of classical learning and literary flair: “I have read Thucydides and Tacitus so often, and at such distant periods of my Life, that elegant, profound and enchanting is their Style, I am weary of them,” then joked that “My Senectutal Loquacity has more than retaliated your ‘Senile Garrulity.’”

From Literature

In fact, as the novel rumbles along, it gathers a cumulative momentum, its density and garrulity impressing upon the reader a sense of the arduousness of Mason and Dixon’s journey and the long, aching curve of their lives.

From New York Times

Earlier this year, Dan Chiasson described Terrance Hayes as “a poet of swallowed garrulity, imagined riposte, mock correction, and interior litigation.”

From The New Yorker