logorrhea
Americannoun
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pathologically incoherent, repetitious speech.
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incessant or compulsive talkativeness; wearisome volubility.
Other Word Forms
- logorrheic adjective
Etymology
Origin of logorrhea
Example Sentences
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From Washington Times
They can barely contain the logorrhea when things are going well.
From Fox News
But her tinny outrage and Tyler’s own dogmatic logorrhea begin to feel like exhibits in a playfully prickly riff on the inauthentic, the massaged and the cagily appropriated when telling stories.
From Los Angeles Times
Since he found his calling in fiction in his 60s, he says, he’s had logorrhea — the opposite of writer’s block.
From Los Angeles Times
Did you hear the one about the Irish Prime Minister who travelled from Dublin to County Clare to meet an American President stricken with logorrhea?
From The New Yorker
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