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🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

garrulidad

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ɡa.ru.liˈðað

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Garrulity/ɡəˈruːləti/
nounCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #9500 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Su garrulidad hizo que la conversación fuera interminable."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The quality of being garrulous; excessive talkativeness.

    "Her garrulity made it difficult for others to get a word in during the meeting."
  2. 2

    A tendency to engage in long-winded or trivial conversation.

    "The garrulity of the old man was charming, as he recounted stories from his youth."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin garrulitas, stemming from garrulus (talkative), ultimately rooted in the Proto-Indo-European *gar- (to cry, call, or chatter). It entered the English language in the late 16th century, maintaining its specialized sense of excessive, rambling, and trivial talkativeness.

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