TALKATIVENESS Synonyms: 26 Similar and Opposite Words

talkativeness

noun

Definition of talkativeness

as in loquacity

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Recent Examples of talkativeness Kratom products contain chemicals that can increase alertness, physical energy, and talkativeness. — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 23 Sep. 2026

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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

Definition of loquacity

Noun

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

Definition of eloquence

Noun

The chattiness of Eddy’s dispatches does little to conceal that the novel’s Jamaica is a grim place for gay men.

— Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
By contrast, Trump is being needled almost weekly by Tillis and other GOP senators whose chattiness with the press has drawn the ire of the president.

— David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 31 May 2026

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talkativeness

talk down

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