talkiness

noun

as in loquacity

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  1. loquacity
  2. loquaciousness
  3. eloquence
  4. chattiness
  5. fluency
Noun
  • The central bank’s pathological loquacity—policy statements, detailed meeting minutes, press conferences, speeches, interviews and those infernal dot plots—has become more confusing than enlightening.
    — Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Such loquacity doesn’t come cheap, not just in terms of paying your writers and cast but also in capturing actors’ performances.
    — Alexander Chatziioannou, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2022
Definition of loquacity
Noun
  • However, Fallon noted that there have been times when his loquaciousness has backfired, too.
    — Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Sep. 2025
Definition of loquaciousness
Noun
  • The Odysseus of legend is known for his cunning and his eloquence.
    — Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 15 July 2026
  • Blarney Castle is, of course, home to the legendary Blarney Stone—a block of limestone built into the castle that’s said to gift eloquence and persuasiveness to whoever kisses it.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 12 July 2026
Definition of eloquence
Noun
  • The chattiness of Eddy’s dispatches does little to conceal that the novel’s Jamaica is a grim place for gay men.
    — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
  • By contrast, Trump is being needled almost weekly by Tillis and other GOP senators whose chattiness with the press has drawn the ire of the president.
    — David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 31 May 2026
Definition of chattiness
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  • Pankaj Prasoon is senior director of CFO systems at LinkedIn, leading finance technology and building AI fluency across finance teams.
    — Pankaj Prasoon, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026
  • Subsequent research actually backed him up, finding that habitual calculator use before students had internalized basic arithmetic weakened their mental fluency and fact retrieval.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of fluency
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“Talkiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/talkiness. Accessed 5 Sep. 2026.

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