What's the difference between loquacity and prate?

Loquacity


Definition:

  • (n.) The habit or practice of talking continually or excessively; inclination to talk too much; talkativeness; garrulity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The energy, the loquacity, the camp manner, the apparent frankness.
  • (2) I begin to realise that Arran's new-found loquacity may have something to do with the fact that I am clearly more out of breath than him.
  • (3) Clinical improvement is demonstrated in a group of 41 day patients of mixed diagnosis by changes in measures of depression, self-esteem, loquacity and sociability over a period of six weeks.
  • (4) The greatest talker is Enid Lambert, whose loquacity will remind many a novel-reader of Jane Austen's Miss Bates.

Prate


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly; to babble.
  • (v. t.) To utter foolishly; to speak without reason or purpose; to chatter, or babble.
  • (n.) Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaning loquacity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Most difficult record Peterson has bought: Tam Tam Tam by José Prates.

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