[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being communicative: see the adjective. Now, esp. Readiness to communicate information or tell what one knows or thinks.
1659. Hammond, Annot. Acts xi. 20 (T.). None of that communicativeness and charity among you, as is required.
1672. Mede’s Wks., Author’s Life, p. xxxviii. His communicativeness in ordinary Discourse.
1678. Norris, Coll. Misc. (1699), 255. This excellent Communicativeness of the Divine Nature.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa (1811), II. xlv. 337. To come at all Mr. Lovelace’s secrets, and even, from his careless communicativeness, at some of mine.
1870. Lowell, Among my Bks., Ser. I. (1873), 217. The communicativeness of Hamlet, and his tendency to soliloquize.
