in her article the professor resorts to garrulity in a vain attempt to disguise the fact that she has very little worth saying
Recent Examples on the WebFlatulent describes inflated, pretentious writing; garrulity describes excessive talkativeness.—Gary Gilson, Star Tribune, 31 Oct. 2020
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Word History
Etymology
borrowed from Middle French & Latin; Middle French garrulité, borrowed from Latin garrulitāt-, garrulitās, from garrulus "chatty, garrulous" + -itāt-, -itās-ity
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