Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being communicative; readiness to impart to others; freedom from reserve; talkativeness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being communicative.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or quality of being
communicative .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the trait of being communicative
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word communicativeness.
Examples
-
All the pretty picture of the soft puppy, instinct with communicativeness, bursting with tenderness of petition, was veiled to his vision.
CHAPTER VII 2010
-
In Virtues of the Mind, Linda Zagzebski (1996, p. 114) gives a very comprehensive list of intellectual virtues, adding such items as intellectual humility, perseverance, adaptability and communicativeness.
Integrity Cox, Damian 2008
-
My communicativeness has been already encouraged with the perusal of two letters from the same ex-ceirent man to Dr. Bartlett; to whom, from early days (as I shall be soon more particularly informed) he has given an account of all his conduct and movements.
-
Mr. Gardiner, whose manners were very easy and pleasant, encouraged her communicativeness by his questions and remarks; Mrs. Reynolds, either by pride or attachment, had evidently great pleasure in talking of her master and his sister.
Pride and Prejudice 2004
-
After a few words of condolence, in a broken kind of English, he asked me various questions about our family; and I, won by his seeming kindness, told him all I knew about them — of which communicativeness I afterwards very much repented.
Lavengro 2004
-
Ed was my Syracuse University classmate, thus no spring chicken, but he refuses to let the new lingo close down his communicativeness.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
-
Ed was my Syracuse University classmate, thus no spring chicken, but he refuses to let the new lingo close down his communicativeness.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
-
Ed was my Syracuse University classmate, thus no spring chicken, but he refuses to let the new lingo close down his communicativeness.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
-
Such extra communicativeness could give you no pleasure.
Villette 2003
-
Ed was my Syracuse University classmate, thus no spring chicken, but he refuses to let the new lingo close down his communicativeness.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.