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• n  the quality of being wordy and talkative

• This year he outdid himself in grouchy garrulity.
• I assumed that Reagan would control the garrulity.
• Chung Tun-fu, in a state of garrulity almost unheard of among Chinese politicos of any complexion.

• garrulousness
• loquaciousness
• loquacity
• talkativeness

Quotes

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• Thomas McGuane in Edmonton Journal
  McGuane described it as a "short yet spacious and powerful book," as contrasted with the "well-larded garrulity of the bulbous American novel of today," and felt the prose recalled the careful writing of JM Coetzee and WG Sebald.