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volubility

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noun

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

  1. 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. the degree to which someone is voluble