loquacity means talkativeness; the quality of being loquacious. It carries an Arena rating of 1626, earned across 36 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, loquacity ranks #1,659 of 17,126 for Most Satisfying to Say, #2,516 of 17,134 for Most Malleable Words, #3,212 of 17,127 for Words That Escaped Their Books, #6,274 of 17,126 for Most Elegant Words.
loquacity is pronounced /loʊˈkwæsɪti/.
Why “loquacity” is a great word
LOQUACITY — [Noun] The quality or habit of being very or excessively talkative. From Middle French loquacité, from Latin loquācitās ("talkativeness"), from loquāx ("talkative"), from loquī ("to speak"). First attested in English c. 1200. Unlike "garrulous," which implies tedious rambling about trifles, or "voluble," which suggests a swift, unimpeded fluency, loquacity is the sheer, unceasing abundance of speech. It is the warm, breathy cloud of a crowded salon, the incessant clatter of a café where every table is a soliloquy, and the palpable fatigue in a listener's shoulders as the monologue washes over them—a testament not to what is said, but to the human dread of the silence that waits when the words finally run out.
Etymology
From Middle French loquacité, from Latin loquācitās (whence -acity), from loquor (“to say, speak, tell, talk, utter”).
noun
- Talkativeness; the quality of being loquacious.
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