🗣️ A talkative manner 💻 Too many messages

chattiness

8.8

A computer program sending many small messages that slow the system

noun
/ˈʧæt̬iˌnəs/

Specialized

: verbosidad

Developers reduced the system's chattiness to improve overall performance and speed.

Examples

The chattiness of the messaging protocol caused unnecessary network congestion.
Too much chattiness in an application can overwhelm both servers and users.
The chattiness of the software slowed down the system.
Many developers complain about the chattiness of the API.
The chattiness of the messaging protocol caused unnecessary network congestion.
Developers reduced the system's chattiness to improve overall performance and speed.
Too much chattiness in an application can overwhelm both servers and users.

Synonyms

verbosity

vschattiness

Specialized

1 7.7

How much detail a program shows in its messages or logs

focuses on many small messages causing inefficiency rather than level of detail

talkiness

vschattiness

6.8

Speaking or writing with more words than needed and making the meaning unclear

describes lots of small program messages that hurt efficiency not extra words

Antonyms

efficiency

342 3.4

Getting good results while using little time, effort, or money

conciseness

1 5.5

Saying something clearly with few words

How Chatty

chatty

Specialized

7.5

chattiness

Specialized

8.8

verbose

7 7.1

Surface Forms

chattiness singular

chattinesses plural

Morphology

chattiness = chatty (semi-transparent) = chat + y + ness

Morphologically derived from 'chat'/'chatty', but the technical computing sense ('many small messages') is a domain-specific metaphor requiring background knowledge.

Etymology

Chattiness uses the same root chat, meaning 'talk quickly', and computer people borrowed the idea to describe systems that send many tiny messages to each other. So in computing, chattiness means 'many small messages' that make a system slow or inefficient.