Logomaniac
/ˌlɒɡəˈmeɪniæk/ noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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."
Example
More examples"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.