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logorrhea

[ law-guh-ree-uh, log-uh- ]
/ ˌlɔ gəˈri ə, ˌlɒg ə- /
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noun

pathologically incoherent, repetitious speech.
incessant or compulsive talkativeness; wearisome volubility.

RELATED WORDS

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

Nearby words

logopedia, logopedics, logophile, logophobia, logoplegia, logorrhea, logorrhoea, logos, logotype, logperch, logroll

Origin of logorrhea

First recorded in 1900–05; logo- + -rrhea
Related formslog·or·rhe·ic, adjective
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Examples from the Web for logorrhea

  • I've got enough trouble without your coming down with logorrhea.

    Badge of Infamy|Lester del Rey

Word Origin and History for logorrhea

logorrhea

n.

1878, from logos + ending from diarrhea.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper

Medicine definitions for logorrhea

logorrhea

[ lŏg′ə-rē′ə ]

n.

Excessive use of words.
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