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

Finnegan was fascinated by Renneker — not only because of his wave knowledge and technical skill, but also because his brashness and garrulity cut against surfing’s “social contract,” which rewards understatement and cool.

From Washington Post

Hayes is a poet of swallowed garrulity, imagined riposte, mock correction, and interior litigation.

From The New Yorker

The Guardian’s leader the next day, England’s Danger, contrasted the silence in Whitehall and Westminster with the “unofficial garrulity” on the matter.

From The Guardian