Logorrhea

//ˌlɒ.ɡəˈɹɪ.ə// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Excessive talkativeness. US, countable, humorous, often, uncountable

    "These "Symbolists" are characterised by unbounded vanity and self-sufficiency; they are highly emotional; their thinking is hazy and disconnected. They suffer from "Logorrhea" or "sickly talkativeness," and are unable to perform any work which requires concentration and persistency."

  2. 2
    pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking wordnet
  3. 3
    Excessive use of words in writing; prolixity. US, countable, humorous, often, uncountable

    "The writer should endeavor to have his observations first of all, exact, then apposite, and finally as brief as the nature of the case will admit. [...] Logorrhea and irrelevancy are the bane of a society."

  4. 4
    Excessive and often uncontrollable speaking due to a mental disorder. US, countable, uncountable

    "But, then, these persons have not only a copia verborum as to knowledge, but a volubility sometimes amounting to a logorrhœa in expressing what they know—although that may not be much."

Etymology

From logo- (prefix meaning ‘word; speech’) + -rrhea (suffix meaning ‘flowing’), probably modelled after verbal diarrhea. logo- is derived from Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos, “word; speech; utterance”) (from λέγω (légō, “to say, speak; to arrange; to gather”), from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to collect, gather”)), while -rrhea is from ῥοία (rhoía, “a flow, flux”) (from ῥέω (rhéō, “to flow”), from Proto-Indo-European *srew- (“to flow”)).

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