[f. prec. + -NESS.] The quality or state of being talkative.
1609. W. M., Man in Moone (1849), 48. Talkativeness, or much babling.
1674. Govt. Tongue, vi. 73. We use to call this Talkativeness a Feminine vice.
176[?]. Wesley, To Children, 2, Wks. 1811, IX. 92. Talkativeness before any person has the appearance of disrespect.
1840. Dickens, Old C. Shop, xiv. There was a clinking of wine-glasses and a great talkativeness on the part of everybody.
1915. Ida M. Tarbell, The Ways of Woman, iv. 64. For a habit which persists through the ages, in the face of censure and ridicule, as woman’s talkativeness has, there is a reason. Generally it lies in the depths of life, where critics do not always explore.
