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Meaning of "volubility" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF VOLUBILITY

volubility  [ˌvɒljʊˈbɪlɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF VOLUBILITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Volubility is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES VOLUBILITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Fluency

Fluency is the property of a person or of a system that delivers information quickly and with expertise.

Definition of volubility in the English dictionary

The definition of volubility in the dictionary is the quality of talking easily, readily, and at length; fluency. Other definition of volubility is the quality of easily turning or rotating, as on an axis.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH VOLUBILITY


ability
əˈbɪlɪtɪ
accessibility
əkˌsɛsɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
accountability
əˌkaʊntəˈbɪlɪtɪ
availability
əˌveɪləˈbɪlɪtɪ
capability
ˌkeɪpəˈbɪlɪtɪ
compatibility
kəmˌpætɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
disability
ˌdɪsəˈbɪlɪtɪ
durability
ˌdjʊərəˈbɪlɪtɪ
eligibility
ˌɛlɪdʒɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
flexibility
ˌflɛksɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
inability
ˌɪnəˈbɪlɪtɪ
liability
ˌlaɪəˈbɪlɪtɪ
mobility
məʊˈbɪlɪtɪ
nobility
nəʊˈbɪlɪtɪ
possibility
ˌpɒsɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
probability
ˌprɒbəˈbɪlɪtɪ
reliability
rɪˌlaɪəˈbɪlɪtɪ
responsibility
rɪˌspɒnsəˈbɪlɪtɪ
stability
stəˈbɪlɪtɪ
visibility
ˌvɪzɪˈbɪlɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE VOLUBILITY

voluble
volubleness
volubly
volucrine
volume
volume control
volume discount
volumed
volumenometer
volumeter
volumetric
volumetric analysis
volumetric displacement
volumetric efficiency
volumetrical
volumetrically
volumetry
voluminal
voluminosity

WORDS THAT END LIKE VOLUBILITY

agility
credibility
facility
feasibility
fertility
functionality
hostility
humility
inevitability
instability
merchantability
profitability
suitability
susceptibility
sustainability
tranquility
usability
utility
variability
versatility
vulnerability

Synonyms and antonyms of volubility in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «VOLUBILITY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «volubility» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of volubility

Translation of «volubility» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF VOLUBILITY

Find out the translation of volubility to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of volubility from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «volubility» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

健谈
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

volubilidad
570 millions of speakers

English

volubility
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

volubility
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الثرثرة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

говорливость
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

volubilidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শব্দব্যবহার
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

volubilité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Keletihan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Zungenfertigkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

volubility
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

volubility
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kobelan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

người có tánh hoạt bát
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

volubility
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अस्थिरता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

konuşkanlık
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

loquacità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

swadą
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

балакучість
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

volubility
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ευφράδεια
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

radheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

svada
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

volubility
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of volubility

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «VOLUBILITY»

The term «volubility» is normally little used and occupies the 123.757 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «VOLUBILITY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «volubility» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «volubility» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about volubility

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VOLUBILITY»

Discover the use of volubility in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to volubility and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Prelinguistic Behaviors of Children with Specific Language ...
The two groups' volubility rate was similar at the 6 — 7 month age range, with the TD group having a rate slightly higher than the SLI group (TD: 79.96, SLI: 76.44 vocal events per hour). However, volubility rate was quite different at the 8-9 ...
Nicole M. Magaldi, 2007
2
Spoken Like a Woman: Speech and Gender in Athenian Drama
VOLUBILITY. We turn now from women's public, ritual speech to the literary representation of women's domestic speech. The two verbal genres most frequently associated with women outside a ritual context are gossip and what I have termed ...
Laura McClure, 1999
3
A Brief History of the Joint Ufe of Recompos ́d Set Forms of ...
some Persons with such a natural Volubility of Tongue, such a readiness and fluency of Speech, that they are able to express themselves extempore in a decent :manner upon all occasions, and consequently may be thought capable of  ...
Thomas BENNET, 1708
4
A Brief History of the Joint Use of Precompos'd Set Forms of ...
some Persons with such a natural Volubility of Tongue, such a readiness and fluency of Speech, that they are able to express themselves extempore in a decent manner upon all occasions, and consequently may be thought capable of  ...
Thomas Bennet, 1708
5
Everybody is an Actor
Psychophantic Volubility is extremely important to any film actor. To be able to project, formalize, and be fluent in your voice as a film artist will put you several levels above your competitors. It will prevent what I call blahspeech. Lester Languid ...
Dr. Richard R. Reichel
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Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Synonyms
Book News) Voluble and volubility suggest a free, flowing, and seemingly unending loquacity < perhaps it was an overwhelming shock for the voluble French to discover that foreigners could enjoy conversation, too—MacInnes) < realizing that ...
Merriam-Webster, Inc, 1984
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The Behavior of Federal Judges: A Theoretical and Empirical ...
One explanation forthe Justices' increased volubility may be a wallflower effect. Once severalJustices emergeas active questioners, observers begin to wonder whether those who donotask many questions are reticent because theycan't keep  ...
Lee Epstein, William M Landes, Richard A Posner, 2013
8
Episodic Poetics: Politics and Literary Form After the ...
In this sense, volubility is [. . .] the formal principle.”57 Volubility dictates the narratological and dramatic (i.e., emotional) structure of the novel: the transformations that produce episodes, the linkages between them, and the variations in ...
Matthew Garrett, 2014
9
Punch
I turn and see that the policeman has left his post and is marching off up the road, while a bareheaded woman, half running, half walking, precedes him by a few yards in a state of breathless volubility. Confidently leaving my unfinished ...
Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, 1903
10
Advances in the Spoken-Language Development of Deaf and ...
The volubility myth, that deaf infants supposedly produce less vocalization ( independent of type of vocalization) than hearing infants do, is hard to trace but may also be largely attributable to Lenneberg (1967). The fact is that very little research ...
Patricia Elizabeth Spencer Texas A & M University, Marc Marschark Director National Technical Institute for the Deaf, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VOLUBILITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term volubility is used in the context of the following news items.
1
The real reason everyone was worried about Greece is gone (EUR …
"The sharp and sudden increase in support for the 'No' vote in the Scottish referendum in September of last year should prove a timely reminder of the volubility ... «Shawnee News Star, Jul 15»
2
Political jousting is entertaining, but not always informative
There were also almost endearing character traits on display: Joan Burton is "Ms Volubility", dispensing words by the dozen; and Senator Marc MacSharry could ... «Irish Independent, Jul 15»
3
PMQs Sketch: Cameron's lurches to the left
To warm himself up Mr Bercow began shouting with rustic volubility at some obscure source of noise. 'Mr Macdonald!' he yelled with a smirk. 'Take some sort of ... «Spectator.co.uk, Jul 15»
4
Puncture wounds
“He will lie, sir, with such volubility that you would think truth were a fool” — Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well. Perhaps even the most incorrigible of ... «Daily Times, Jul 15»
5
Victoria Pendleton finishes eighth in first race in public at Newbury
Pendleton, however, was bouncing with energy here, describing the race with the hyper volubility of a teenager who has just sat on a pony for the first time and ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
6
Veteran cellist leads enthusiastic concert
In contrast, the Haydn featured a confronting volubility in this over-resonant hall, wind and percussion in tandem dominating the even-numbered movements' ... «Sydney Morning Herald, May 15»
7
Review of Thorstein Veblen, 'The Higher Learning in America,' first …
The further qualifications requisite to the members of the academic staff will be such as make for vendibility, volubility, tactical effrontery [and] conspicuous ... «Inside Higher Ed, Apr 15»
8
A lesson in geography, typography and stenography
It's a rare moment of volubility for the usually shy Margaret, but otherwise the sequence is typical of Bock's unusual and poetic, if not wholly satisfying, play. «Washington Post, Apr 15»
9
Rex Murphy: May's presence at the debates offers protection from …
Trudeau has something of a new-age conscience on these matters, and brings to environmental issues a kind of TED-talk volubility and depth. «National Post, Apr 15»
10
What Happens When Women Speak Up
Using speech data from the U. S. Senate and from CEOs, she discovered a significant relationship between power and volubility (the total time people spoke). «Re/code, Mar 15»

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