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• n  the quality of being wordy and talkative

• Maybe, she thought, the time last year he bumped his head while unloading butter had something to do with his sudden talkativeness.
• In the Army, the tough, patient professionals who train recruits are not generally given to talkativeness, and Master .
• Last week bars were down and psychiatrists, notorious among doctors for insistent talkativeness, gave tongue.

• garrulity
• garrulousness
• loquaciousness
• loquacity

News & Articles

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• An extraordinary life: Shorewood man was anything but all talk
  Near the Pennsylvania and New Jersey border is an old wood toll bridge. Anna Janssen of Shorewood said she and her adult children often joked that her husband and their father, Neil Janssen, would have enjoyed being the toll collector there. “He really liked talking to people,” Anna said. “Then we decided the job wouldn’t be a good idea. He’d have traffic backed up.” Talkativeness is not a rare ...
  July 5, 2013 - The Herald News