overloquaciousness

English

Etymology

From overloquacious +‎ -ness.

Noun

overloquaciousness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being overloquacious.
    Synonyms: overloquacity, overtalkativeness
    • 1901 May 12, “Convicted as Common Scold”, in The Chicago Sunday Tribune, volume LX, number 132, Chicago, Ill., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5, column 3:
      Massachusetts Woman Found Guilty of Overloquaciousness in an Argument with a Neighbor.
    • 1970, Kenneth O. Gangel, “The Leader as Board or Committee Chairman”, in Leadership for Church Education, Chicago, Ill.: Moody Press, published 1974 (5th printing), →ISBN, part IV (Roles and Responsibilities of Church Leaders), page 247:
      Overloquaciousness can reap one of two possible results for this committee member. Either his arguments are persuasive and he draws support, or his much talking builds enmity among the other committee members.
    • 1979, S[amuel] R[ichard] Slavson, “The Phenomenology and Dynamics of Silence”, in Mortimer Schiffer, editor, Dynamics of Group Psychotherapy, New York, N.Y.; London: Jason Aronson, →ISBN, part 1 (Group Psychotherapy: Adults), page 334:
      In the psychoneurotic patient, direct treatment of these conditions—silence or overloquaciousness—is also not possible. Treatment has to be directed toward uncovering the underlying memories and feelings of which the traits are a result; that is, the therapist must wait until the nuclear problems from which they stem are resolved and the anxieties that generate the silences are reduced or eliminated and the behavior pattern is automatically sloughed off.
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