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  • noun The state or condition of being talky.

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Examples

  • He has a bearded, teddy-bear face, and swaddles people with talkiness.

    THE HUSBANDS AND WIVES CLUB LAURIE ABRAHAM 2010

  • The film is sabotaged by its talkiness and compulsive need to explain, and by its melodrama.

    Sorry, Wrong Number Ed Howard 2009

  • They are cartoony, but they're some of the talkiest cartoons ever made, and talkiness is actually not incompatible with cartooniness.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2008

  • Everyone KNOWS only talkiness in cartoons only results in that horrible Simpsons and Family Guy bilge and any cartoons that's talky can't every be called a REAL cartoon.

    The Talkier The Better Jaime J. Weinman 2008

  • "Everyone KNOWS only talkiness in cartoons only results in that horrible Simpsons and Family Guy bilge and any cartoons that's talky can't every be called a REAL cartoon."

    The Talkier The Better Jaime J. Weinman 2008

  • But film directors tend to overcompensate for the talkiness with visual hustle-bustle.

    Shakespeare 2008

  • They are cartoony, but they're some of the talkiest cartoons ever made, and talkiness is actually not incompatible with cartooniness.

    The Talkier The Better Jaime J. Weinman 2008

  • Still, she should never have released this album as an unedited double CD, not just because of its talkiness -- the song intros are given their own tracks, presumably so you can program them out -- but also because many of the new tunes feel blurry, unfinished, rushed into being.

    Songs In The Key Of Strife 2007

  • Everybody complained about the talkiness and the pseudo-philosophy and the Christian overtones, but there was some thought in this, as well as a promise that it was going somewhere, that the writers had something in mind.

    procrastinatin' Holly 2005

  • Everybody complained about the talkiness and the pseudo-philosophy and the Christian overtones, but there was some thought in this, as well as a promise that it was going somewhere, that the writers had something in mind.

    Archive 2005-11-01 Holly 2005

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