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• n  the quality of being wordy and talkative

• The Ruhr from London The loquacity of Lloyd George assumed a tone of despondency.
• The man's loquacity was the outward manifestation of a brain unhitched and running wild.
• Even before he was ousted for conspiring against Nikita Khrushchev in 1957, former Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov was not known for his dinner-table loquacity.

• garrulity
• garrulousness
• loquaciousness
• talkativeness

News & Articles

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• Obama has talked himself into corner on war in Syria
  WASHINGTON — Barack Obama's foreign policy dream — cordial relations with a Middle East tranquilized by "smart diplomacy" — is in a death grapple with reality. His rhetorical writhings illustrate the perils of loquacity. read more
  Aug. 29, 2013 - IlliniHQ.com
• A weirdLy worded wandering to war
  Barack Obama’s foreign-policy dream — cordial relations with a Middle East tranquilized by “smart diplomacy” — is in a death grapple with reality. His rhetorical writhings illustrate the perils of loquacity. He has a glutton’s rather than a gourmet’s appetite for his own rhetorical cuisine, and has talked America...
  Aug. 29, 2013 - New York Post
• GEORGE WILL: The perils of loquacity
  Barack Obama's foreign policy dream -- cordial relations with a Middle East tranquilized by "smart diplomacy" -- is in a death grapple with reality. His rhetorical writhings illustrate the perils of loquacity. He has a glutton's rather than a gourmet's appetite for his own rhetorical cuisine, and has talked America to the precipice of a fourth military intervention in the crescent that extends ...
  Aug. 28, 2013 - The Biloxi Sun Herald