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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.

Words related to logorrhea

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

Words nearby logorrhea

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

Origin of logorrhea

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

OTHER WORDS FROM logorrhea

log·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

Medicine definitions for logorrhea

logorrhea
[ lŏg′ə-rē′ə ]

n.

Excessive use of words.
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