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GARRULOUSNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being wordy and talkative
Synonyms:
garrulity; garrulousness; loquaciousness; loquacity; talkativeness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("garrulousness" is a kind of...):
communicativeness (the trait of being communicative)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "garrulousness"):
leresis (rambling talkativeness (especially in the aged))
Derivation:
garrulous (full of trivial conversation)