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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In 1991 Will Self disgorged himself on to the British literary scene with “The Quantity Theory of Insanity,” a book of short stories seething with misanthropy and logorrhea.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
The State Department suffers from institutional logorrhea, whereas career intelligence personnel generally make “Silent Cal” Coolidge seem chatty.
From Washington Post • May 25, 2022
One could say Brenda died as she lived, since she spent too much time putting up with Billy's logorrhea and bored easily.
From Salon • Jun. 3, 2021
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 • Aug. 29, 2019
I've got enough trouble without your coming down with logorrhea.
From Badge of Infamy by Del Rey, Lester
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