Logomaniac

/ˌlɒɡəˈmeɪniæk/ noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who is obsessed with words.

    "Willy's speech, like Doc's, is a rolling bricolage of cliche, literary quotation, epigram, advertising slogan and salvage from the past. To some extent, the presence in the book of a drunken logomaniac such as Willy gives Auster's prose a new exuberance."

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"Willy's speech, like Doc's, is a rolling bricolage of cliche, literary quotation, epigram, advertising slogan and salvage from the past. To some extent, the presence in the book of a drunken logomaniac such as Willy gives Auster's prose a new exuberance."

Etymology

From logo- + -maniac.

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