volubility means the state of being voluble. It carries an Arena rating of 1566, earned across 35 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, volubility ranks #2,127 of 17,126 for Most Satisfying to Say, #2,359 of 17,134 for Most Malleable Words, #3,802 of 17,130 for Most Beautiful Words, #5,261 of 17,127 for Words That Escaped Their Books.
Why “volubility” is a great word
VOLUBILITY — [Noun] The quality of being voluble; a ready, rapid, and smooth flow of speech. From Latin volūbilitās, from volūbilis ("rolling, turning, fluent") + -tās (noun-forming suffix). Unlike loquacity, which suggests excessive or tiresome talk, or terseness, which denotes a pointed brevity, volubility is the machinery of effortless fluency itself. It is the ceaseless clatter of a ticker-tape machine, the unspooling of a well-oiled reel, or the silken, relentless narrative of a practiced liar—a torrent of words so continuous it mistakes its own momentum for meaning.
Etymology
From Latin volūbilitās. By surface analysis, voluble + -ity.
noun
- the state of being volublee.g.“His volubility had left him at last, and he sank down wearily on my sofa. I felt that no words of condolence availed, and I let him lie there quietly.” — 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 36”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
- the degree to which someone is voluble
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