Definition of "loquacity"

Their silence would have been awkward but for the loquacity of Jane, who talked enough for all three.

1887, George Bernard Shaw, chapter 17, in An Unsocial Socialist

Here was news for us, for Mr Kelada, with all his loquacity, had never told anyone what his business was.

1924, W. Somerset Maugham, “Mr Know‐All”, in Good Housekeeping