loquacious
adjective (noun = loquacity)

- having the habit of talking a lot

The Cambridge Dictionary

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ORIGIN

"Loquacious" stems from the Latin "loqui", to speak.

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MOST BEAUTIFUL WORDS

According to a 2004 survey of 40,000 non-English speakers in 102 countries, “loquacious” is one of the 70 most beautiful words in the English language.

TOP 10: Mother, passion, smile, love, eternity, fantastic, destiny, freedom, liberty, tranquillity.

Other words to make the top 70 included: aurora, eternity, miraculous, quintessential, serendipity.

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OVER LOQUACITY

Fidel Castro’s speech on “The Denouncement of Imperialism and Colonialism” is the longest speech given before the UN General Assembly, lasting 4.5 hours. Castro was well known for his lengthy, interminable speeches – the longest taking over 7 hours at the 1986 Communist Party Congress.

Source: BBC News

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SYNONYMS

babbling, beating around the bush, blah-blah, blathering, chattering, circumlocution, flannel, gabbling, garrulousness, gibbering, gobbledygook, grandiloquence, jabbering, logorrhoea, long-windedness, LOQUACITY, mouthiness, multiloquence, periphrasis, prattling, rambling, superfluity, talkative, verbiage, verbomania, verbosity, waffle, windiness, wittering, wordiness, yackety-yak, yakking

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PRACTICE OWAD in an English conversation, say something like:

“You may need to interrupt Jim from time to time, he’s rather LOQUACIOUS.”

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