loquaciousness

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Recent Examples of loquaciousness However, Fallon noted that there have been times when his loquaciousness has backfired, too. — Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Sep. 2025
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  1. loquacity
  2. talkativeness
  3. eloquence
Noun
  • The central bank’s pathological loquacity—policy statements, detailed meeting minutes, press conferences, speeches, interviews and those infernal dot plots—has become more confusing than enlightening.
    — Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Such loquacity doesn’t come cheap, not just in terms of paying your writers and cast but also in capturing actors’ performances.
    — Alexander Chatziioannou, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2022
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  • Kratom products contain chemicals that can increase alertness, physical energy, and talkativeness.
    — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of talkativeness
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  • In their eloquence and their ways of avoiding easy comfort, the poems also deal with the hushed experience of surviving someone else’s death and fulfill the urge to say something not only real and true but formal and exact, as though for a ceremony.
    — Colm Tóibín, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2026
  • His eloquence and unflinching honesty helped immortalize the eulogy.
    — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 23 Sep. 2026
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“Loquaciousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/loquaciousness. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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