VOLUBILITY Synonyms: 26 Similar and Opposite Words

volubility

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Definition of volubility

as in eloquence

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Played by the six-foot-six David Prowse and voiced with eloquence and controlled rage by James Earl Jones, Vader is a force of inescapable menace throughout George Lucas’s Star Wars trilogy.

— John Roy, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2026
In their eloquence and their ways of avoiding easy comfort, the poems also deal with the hushed experience of surviving someone else’s death and fulfill the urge to say something not only real and true but formal and exact, as though for a ceremony.

— Colm Tóibín, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2026

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Emerging professionals bring digital fluency and a willingness to question assumptions.

— Dean Leavitt, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026
Regardless, attention is the tool by which artificial neural networks access and convey meaning, association, and context, often well enough to astonish us with their fluency.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 12 Oct. 2026

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