volubility

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Definition of volubility

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (uncountable)the state of being voluble
    “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.”
    “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.”
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noun

  1. (uncountable)the state of being voluble
    “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.”
    “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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Etymology

From Latin volūbilitās. By surface analysis, voluble + -ity.

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