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The quality of being talkative; talkativeness; loquaciousness; loquacity.

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  1. n. The quality of being talkative; talkativeness; loquaciousness; loquacity.
  2. n. The quality of producing no valuable effect, or of coming to nothing; uselessness.
  3. n. uselessness as a consequence of having no practical result
  4. 1. The quality of being talkative; talkativeness; loquaciousness; loquacity. [Obs.] 2. The quality of producing no valuable effect, or of coming to nothing; uselessness. The futility of this mode of philosophizing. Whewell.
  5. n:100 n. uselessness as a consequence of having no practical result