garrulity

[ guh-roo-li-tee ]

/ gəˈru lɪ ti /

the quality of being garrulous; talkativeness; loquacity.

Origin of garrulity

1575–85; < French garrulité < Latin garrulitās. See garrulous, -ity

non·gar·ru·li·ty, noun

The garrulity of age, a powerful imagination, and a boasting disposition are his chief stock in trade.

Historic Waterways--Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers |Reuben Gold Thwaites
He was somewhat talkative, and was a little inclined to be imprudent in his conversation, but with a certain wit in his garrulity.

Saragossa |Benito Prez Galds
She missed the garrulity of familiar friends whom she no longer met.

To Tell You the Truth |Leonard Merrick
The evening also passed away, but not without continued symptoms of garrulity on the part of Geoffrey Hudson.

Peveril of the Peak |Sir Walter Scott

The reading of Collier's folio, garrulity, would agree better with the context; but it is not a Shakespearian term.

The Shakespeare-Expositor: An Aid to the Perfect Understanding of Shakespeare's Plays |Thomas Keightley