VOLUBILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does volubility mean? 

• VOLUBILITY (noun)
  The noun VOLUBILITY has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being facile in speech and writing

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• VOLUBILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being facile in speech and writing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

articulateness; fluency; volubility

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

communicativeness (the trait of being communicative)

Derivation:

voluble (marked by a ready flow of speech)

 Context examples 

But Miss Bates soon came—“Very happy and obliged”—but Emma's conscience told her that there was not the same cheerful volubility as before—less ease of look and manner.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

When he ceased she became brisk again in an instant, and rattled away with surprising volubility.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Mrs. Norris was all delight and volubility; and even Fanny had something to say in admiration, and might be heard with complacency.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Had Lydia and her mother known the substance of her conference with her father, their indignation would hardly have found expression in their united volubility.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

And then he bade them get the fire lit, and stalked out upon his crutch, with his hand on my shoulder, leaving them in a disarray, and silenced by his volubility rather than convinced.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Mr. Yates's family and connexions were sufficiently known to him to render his introduction as the particular friend, another of the hundred particular friends of his son, exceedingly unwelcome; and it needed all the felicity of being again at home, and all the forbearance it could supply, to save Sir Thomas from anger on finding himself thus bewildered in his own house, making part of a ridiculous exhibition in the midst of theatrical nonsense, and forced in so untoward a moment to admit the acquaintance of a young man whom he felt sure of disapproving, and whose easy indifference and volubility in the course of the first five minutes seemed to mark him the most at home of the two.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)