volubility
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Volubility is something Marías has in common with his narrators, but his fiction doesn’t simply reproduce this habit; it ironizes and interrogates it.
From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2019
Oh! thou Aether, on which I feed, oh! thou Volubility of Speech, oh!
From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 by Aristophanes
The Contr'Alto more of the Pathetick than the Volubility; the Tenor less of the Pathetick, but more of the Volubility than the Contr'Alto, though not so much as the Soprano.
From Observations on the Florid Song or Sentiments on the Ancient and Modern Singers by Galliard, John Ernest
Volubility is almost regularly increased, and is, indeed, one of the most sensitive and constant of the correlations in emotional delight....
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy by Ellis, Havelock
It is also certain, that as much as is allotted to Volubility and Tricks, so much is the Beauty of the Voice sacrificed; for the one cannot be done without Prejudice to the other.
From Observations on the Florid Song or Sentiments on the Ancient and Modern Singers by Galliard, John Ernest