volubility
English
Etymology
voluble + -ity, from Latin volubilitas.
Noun
volubility (countable and uncountable, plural volubilities)
- (uncountable) the state of being voluble
- 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 36”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: 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.
- (countable) the degree to which someone is voluble
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