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coˈmmunicativeness [f. as prec. + -ness.] The quality of being communicative: see the adjective. Now, esp. Readiness to communicate information or tell what one knows or thinks.
1659Hammond Annot. Acts xi. 20 (T.) None of that communicativeness and charity among you, as is required. 1672Mede's Wks., Author's Life p. xxxviii, His communicativeness in ordinary Discourse. 1678Norris Coll. Misc. (1699) 255 This excellent Communicativeness of the Divine Nature. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) II. xlv. 337 To come at all Mr. Lovelace's secrets, and even, from his careless communicativeness, at some of mine. 1870Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. i. (1873) 217 The communicativeness of Hamlet, and his tendency to soliloquize. |