effusiveness

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effusiveness - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  effusiveness \ef*fu"sive*ness\ n.
     a friendly open trait of a talkative person; enthusiasm
     exhibited with little restraint.
  
     Syn: expansiveness.
          [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

  effusive \ef*fu"sive\, a.
     1. Pouring out; pouring forth freely. [archaic] "Washed with
        the effusive wave." --Pope.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Geol.) formed by an outpouring of molten lava, or
        pertaining to rocks so formed.
        [PJC]
  
     3. overly demonstrative; expressing emotion in an
        unrestrained manner; exhibiting unrestrained enthusiasm;
        -- of people and human actions; as, effusive thanks; an
        effusive letter of recommendation. Contrasted with
        reserved. [WordNet sense 1+2]
  
     Syn: gushing, gushy, burbling, burbly. [PJC]
  
     Effusive rocks (Geol.), volcanic rocks formed by a
        nonexplosive outpouring of lava in molten or plastic form;
        in distinction from so-called intrusive, or plutonic,
        rocks. -- Ef*fu"sive*ly, adv. -- Ef*fu"sive*ness, n.
        [1913 Webster]

effusiveness - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  effusiveness
      n 1: a friendly open trait of a talkative person [syn:
           effusiveness, expansiveness, expansivity]