Styles of Speech
Here we have 54 words referring to manners or styles of speaking, words that use the suffix '-loquent', '-loquence', or '-loquy', from Latin loqui (to speak). While in an age of text-messaging, public speaking has lost its once-vaunted status as a communication medium, as long as people meet face to face, others will judge them on their manner of speech. As a university instructor, I know only too well the perils of many of these words. One of my (friendly) rival word lists online and a favourite site of mine is the Grandiloquent Dictionary. Curiously, many '-loquence'-suffixed words are lost words, and thus cannot be included here.
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Definition
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alieniloquy
| speech on subjects other than the matter at hand; off-topic speech
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alloquy
| speaking to another or many others; an address
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altiloquence
| pompous or high speech
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ambiloquous
| using dubious or ambiguous expressions
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amphoriloquy
| cavernous voice of a patient heard over a patient's lung cavity
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anteloquy
| a preface
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antiloquy
| speaking against some idea; contradicting or gainsaying
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biloquist
| one capable of speaking with two distinct voices
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blandiloquence
| complimentary speech; flattery
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blesiloquent
| speaking with a stammer or lisp
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breviloquence
| short-windedness; tendency towards brevity in speech
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caverniloquy
| cavernous voice of a patient heard over a patient's lung cavity
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centiloquy
| work consisting of one hundred aphorisms, attributed to Ptolemy
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colloquy
| speaking together; mutual discourse
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dentiloquent
| speaking with clenched teeth
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diversiloquent
| speaking in different ways; speaking on different subjects
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doctiloquent
| speaking learnedly
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dulciloquent
| speaking sweetly
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eloquence
| forceful and appealing speech
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falsiloquence
| deceitful speech
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fatiloquent
| speaking prophetically; declaring fate
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flexiloquent
| speaking ambiguously or using words of doubtful meaning
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gastriloquist
| ventriloquist
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grandiloquent
| bombastic
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inaniloquent
| prone to foolish or empty babbling
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ineloquence
| unappealing speech
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largiloquent
| talkative; full of words
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longiloquence
| long-winded language
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loquence
| speech
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magniloquent
| speaking in a grand or pompous style
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melliloquent
| speaking harmoniously or sweetly
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mendaciloquence
| lying speech
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multiloquence
| talkativeness; use of many words
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obloquy
| censure; calumny; slander; disgrace
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omniloquent
| speaking on all subjects
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parciloquy
| laconic speech
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pauciloquent
| of few words; speaking little
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pectoriloquy
| sound of patient’s voice as heard through stethoscope
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planiloquent
| speaking plainly
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pleniloquence
| excessive talking; fullness of speech
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polyloquent
| speaking much; loquacious
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sanctiloquent
| speaking on heavenly or holy matters
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sialoquent
| spitting greatly while speaking
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soliloquent
| speaking in soliloquies; prone to giving soliloquies
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soliloquy
| talking or conversing with oneself; dramatic production of this nature
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somniloquence
| talking in one’s sleep
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stultiloquence
| foolish or senseless talk
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suaviloquence
| pleasing or agreeable speech
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tardiloquent
| speaking slowly
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tolutiloquence
| smooth or flowing speech
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tristiloquy
| mournful manner of speech
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vaniloquence
| vain or foolish talk
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ventriloquism
| speaking so that the voice appears to come from elsewhere
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veriloquent
| speaking truthfully; truthful
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