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volubility

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vol·u·ble  (vly-bl)
adj.
1. Marked by a ready flow of speech; fluent.
2.
a. Turning easily on an axis; rotating.
b. Botany Twining or twisting: a voluble vine.
[Middle English, moving easily, from Old French, from Latin volbilis, revolving, fluent, from volvere, to roll; see wel-2 in Indo-European roots.]
volu·bili·ty, volu·ble·ness n.
volu·bly adv.
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Noun1.volubility - the quality of being facile in speech and writing
articulateness, fluency
communicativeness - the trait of being communicative
Translations
volubility [ˌvɒljʊˈbɪlɪtɪ] N → locuacidad f
volubility
n → Redseligkeit f


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His volubility had left him at last, and he sank down wearily on my sofa.
Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
Highcamp hung with languid but unaffected interest upon the warm and impetuous volubility of her left-hand neighbor, Victor Lebrun.
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He greeted Philip with enthusiasm, and with his usual volubility told him that he had come to live in London, Ruth Chalice was a hussy, he had taken a studio, Paris was played out, he had a commission for a portrait, and they'd better dine together and have a good old talk.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
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