talkativity

Definitions

The quality of being talkative.

uncountable

Examples

“Talkability: defined, 54, 55; a talkable person, 56; contrasted with talkativity, 57; […]”

“Our costly mistakes have⟳ been when we mistook plausibility for ability and talkativity for talent.”

“This picture, though taken directly from the stage⟳ play⟳ that won the Pulitzer prize for 1927, is one of those that have⟳ reached only the partial or hesitant stage⟳ of talkativity. Its silent passages are somewhat longer than the vocal ones.”

“Contact⟳ with dementia or other forms of severe cognitive disability can – and indeed should – take⟳ us out of our customary patterns of over-busyness, hypercognitivism and extreme talkativity, into a way of being in which emotion and feeling are given a much larger place⟳.”

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