garrulity
excessive talkativeness
Root
- garr: chatter or prattle
Other words with the garr root
- garrulous: excessively talkative
- garrulously: in an excessively talkative way
- garrulousness: the quality or habit of excessive talkativeness
Garrulity is excessive talkativeness as a trait: the room fills with words and cannot breathe.
The host’s garrulity left no room for the guest to answer.
Garrulity names the habit itself. It is not one long sentence; it is the tendency for talk to keep taking up space after it has stopped helping.