volubility

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English

Etymology

From voluble +‎ -ity, from Latin volubilitas.

Noun

volubility (countable and uncountable, plural volubilities)

  1. (uncountable) the state of being voluble
    • 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 36”, in The Moon and Sixpence, : Grosset & Dunlap Publishers , →OCLC:
      His volubility had left him at last, and he sank down wearily on my sofa. I felt that no words of condolence availed, and I let him lie there quietly.
    • 1976 December 18, Rudy Kikel, “The Doomsday Book by the Jewish Comedian”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 25, page 14:
      But there is no help for him — or for us, his readers — no way for him to stop the chattering by which he means to make his meaning clear […] Freddie Greenfield is doomed, then, and we are doomed along with him, victims of his volubility.
  2. (countable) the degree to which someone is voluble

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