garrulityn.
/ɡəˈruːlɪti/ The quality of being garrulous, loquaciousness.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun]
overspeecheOE
tongue-itch1540
multiloquy1542
long tongue1557
garrulity1581
slipperiness1589
polylogy1602
volubility1602
loquacity1603
lubricity1603
tonguiness1607
overspeakinga1610
talkativeness1609
philology1623
tongue-vice1628
glibness1633
futility1640
linguacity1656
garrulousness1727
linguosity1727
loquaciousness1727
multiloquiousness1727
jaw1748
multiloquence1760
flippancy1789
verbal diarrhoea1808
magpiety1832
big mouth1834
pleniloquence1838
chattiness1876
open-mouthedness1883
gabbiness1887
garrulance1890
irreticence1919
talkiness1934
ear-bashing1945
mee-mawing1974
1581 W. Fulke in A. Nowell et al. True Rep. Disput. E. Campion (1584) iii. sig. O ij b Such as are like to proceede from a Fryer, full of impudencie and garrulite.
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 28 Thou thy selfe..with thy vaine babling and garrulitie troublest our eares.
1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 491 Let me here..expiate, if possible, my crime, Shameful garrulity . View more context for this quotation
1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 141. ⁋1 The prudence of a slave, or the garrulity of a woman, have hindered or promoted the most important schemes.
1788 H. Walpole Reminiscences (1924) i. 6 I am sensible of the garrulity of old age.
1834 T. Pringle Afr. Sketches vii. 247 All alive with the amusing garrulity of monkeys and paroquets.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Guinevere in Idylls of King 241 The novice crying..Shame on her own garrulity garrulously.
1869 J. Phillips Vesuvius ii. 25 Nor is this reticence balanced by the garrulity of any other writer.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
<
n.1581