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Definition of "garrulity" [gar•ru•li•ty]

  • Excessive talkativeness; loquaciousness. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "garrulity" in a sentence
  • "If she had only known which was the real one; she felt at times that his garrulity was a blind -- that he watched her almost satirically whilst he talked."
  • "His garrulity is the garrulity of old age in its last flickering moments."
  • "Few octogenarians had as little of what is termed the garrulity of age as Colonel Burr."