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TALKATIVENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does talkativeness mean? 

TALKATIVENESS (noun)
  The noun TALKATIVENESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being wordy and talkativeplay

  Familiarity information: TALKATIVENESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TALKATIVENESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being wordy and talkative

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

garrulity; garrulousness; loquaciousness; loquacity; talkativeness

Hypernyms ("talkativeness" is a kind of...):

communicativeness (the trait of being communicative)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "talkativeness"):

leresis (rambling talkativeness (especially in the aged))

Derivation:

talkative (friendly and open and willing to talk)

talkative (unwisely talking too much)

talkative (full of trivial conversation)


 Context examples 


Emma encouraged her talkativeness—amused by such a picture of another set of beings, and enjoying the youthful simplicity which could speak with so much exultation of Mrs. Martin's having two parlours, two very good parlours, indeed; one of them quite as large as Mrs. Goddard's drawing-room; and of her having an upper maid who had lived five-and-twenty years with her; and of their having eight cows, two of them Alderneys, and one a little Welch cow, a very pretty little Welch cow indeed; and of Mrs. Martin's saying as she was so fond of it, it should be called her cow; and of their having a very handsome summer-house in their garden, where some day next year they were all to drink tea:—a very handsome summer-house, large enough to hold a dozen people.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)



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