Vaniloquy

Quick meaning: Vaniloquy is a noun meaning (literary, rare) Idle or vain talk.

Meaning

(literary, rare) Idle or vain talk.

Example Sentences

much Babbling, Dicacity, Vaniloquy.

[Суе]сло́віе, sn. des discours frivoles m. . . . . . . . unnützes Geſchwätz. . . . . . . . vaniloquy, vain talk.

The third is the glorious and immortal Vox Stellarum, &c. &c. with “an hieroglyphick adapted to the Times. By Francis Moore, Physician.” But we have at length reached inspired ground, and must end all vaniloquy.

Verbal associations by sound, by mnemonic automatism, by contiguity of space and of time, meeting with no inhibition, overcome every effort at logical continuity of thought, and impel the patients to mere empty talk (vaniloquy).

Word Forms

• vaniloquies
• vaniloquie

Synonyms for vaniloquy

Depending on context, synonyms include vaniloquence.

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