volubility
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]voluble + -ity, from Latin volubilitas.
Noun
[edit]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.
- 1976 December 18, Rudy Kikel, “The Doomsday Book by the Jewish Comedian”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 25, page 14:
- 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.
- (countable) the degree to which someone is voluble
Translations
[edit]the state of being voluble
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