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volubility

noun

volubility is a noun meaning “the state of being voluble” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-O-L-U-B-I-L-I-T-Y, and it appears about once in every 85 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of volubility is volubilities.

What does volubility mean?

noun

  1. 1

    the state of being voluble

  2. 2

    the degree to which someone is voluble

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce volubility?

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-volubility.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of volubility

  • volubilities plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is volubility?

Volubility appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does volubility come from?

From Latin volūbilitās. By surface analysis, voluble + -ity.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).