TALKINESS Synonyms: 26 Similar and Opposite Words

talkiness

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as in loquacity

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Noun

The central bank’s pathological loquacity—policy statements, detailed meeting minutes, press conferences, speeches, interviews and those infernal dot plots—has become more confusing than enlightening.

— Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2022
Such loquacity doesn’t come cheap, not just in terms of paying your writers and cast but also in capturing actors’ performances.

— Alexander Chatziioannou, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2022

Definition of loquacity

Noun

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

Definition of eloquence

Noun

The chattiness of Eddy’s dispatches does little to conceal that the novel’s Jamaica is a grim place for gay men.

— Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
By contrast, Trump is being needled almost weekly by Tillis and other GOP senators whose chattiness with the press has drawn the ire of the president.

— David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 31 May 2026

Definition of chattiness

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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

Definition of fluency

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