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Volubility

Volubility \Vol`u*bil"i*ty\, n. [L. volubilitas: cf. F. volubilit['e].] The quality or state of being voluble (in any of the senses of the adjective).

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
volubility

1570s, from Middle French volubilité (16c.) or directly from Latin volubilitatem (nominative volubilitas) "a rapid turning," figuratively "fluency (of speech)," from volubilis (see voluble).

Wiktionary
volubility

n. 1 (context uncountable English) the state of being voluble 2 (context countable English) the degree to which someone is voluble

WordNet
volubility

n. the quality of being facile in speech and writing [syn: fluency, articulateness]

Usage examples of "volubility".

I generally dislike volubility in my soldiers, you exhibit the kind of blind and dumb courage that can sometimes prove valuable.

The time for volubility was over, and very certainly the affair had ceased to be a game.

As they gained the broad and open space on which it stood, with the lovely sea before them, sleeping in the arms of the curving shore, Maltravers, who had hitherto listened in silence to the volubility of his companion, paused abruptly.

Then she surprised her daughter by a volubility of exhortation as to the duty of making acquaintances, and by the apparent wealth of her knowledge of the mysteries of good society.

Bentley--the passionate volubility of a Vernede, the half-ethereal shyness of a Fordham?

Cursings and execrations poured out of his mouth with a volubility equal to any the most accomplished lady on the back of the Point.

He looked sharply at the city manager, and what he saw choked off the springs of his rare volubility.

Smallweed is seated, that she only quite desists when her grandchildren have held her down in it, her lord in the meanwhile bestowing upon her, with great volubility, the endearing epithet of "a pig-headed jackdaw," repeated a surprising number of times.

There he sat close to the fair Bessie, smoking and drinking gin-water, and talking with great volubility in English sprinkled with Boer-Dutch terms that John Niel did not understand, and gazing at the young lady in a manner which John somehow found unpleasant.