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logorrhea

[law-guh-ree-uh, log-uh-]

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noun

pathologically incoherent, repetitious speech.

incessant or compulsive talkativeness; wearisome volubility.

Origin of logorrhea

First recorded in 1900–05; logo- + -rrhea

Related formslog·or·rhe·ic, adjective

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Related Words for logorrhea

verboseness, verbiage, loquacity, prolixity, loquaciousness, talkativeness, grandiloquence, wordiness, verbosity, volubility, glibness, garrulity, diffusion, rhetoric, redundancy, copiousness, circumlocution, diffuseness, repetition, pleonasm

Examples from the Web for logorrhea

Historical Examples of logorrhea

I've got enough trouble without your coming down with logorrhea.
Badge of Infamy
Lester del Rey

Word Origin and History for logorrhea

n.

1878, from logos + ending from diarrhea.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper

logorrhea in Medicine

logorrhea

[lŏg′ə-rē′ə]

n.

Excessive use of words.

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