Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Excessive use of words.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Morbid loquacity and rapidity of speech.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine, US An excessive and often uncontrollable flow of words.
- noun humorous, US Excessive talkativeness.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking
Etymologies
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Examples
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BL40 would probably be classified as logorrhea, but there's no doubt that this slider is handsome.
Engadget 2009
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That year, the $40,000 grand prize went to Nupur Lala, an Indian-American girl who correctly spelled "logorrhea" in the final round.
Winning Bees Spells Glory for Indian Kids on the Ethnic Circuit Jean Guerrero 2010
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The winner that year correctly spelled "logorrhea."
Tycoon Churned Out Doctors in Caribbean Stephen Miller 2011
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But his eccentric concepts and pseudo-intellectual logorrhea aren't just the product of his own eccentricities.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Dr. Strange: Newt Gingrich and Conservatism's Insane Idea Industry RJ 2011
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But his eccentric concepts and pseudo-intellectual logorrhea aren't just the product of his own eccentricities.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Dr. Strange: Newt Gingrich and Conservatism's Insane Idea Industry RJ 2011
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He tempers his logorrhea with consciously chosen and, as far as I can tell, arbitrary limits.
True Tales of a Happy Hypocrite Alexandra Mullen 2012
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In all these cases, limited capacity ruled out logorrhea.
The Soul of Brevity Daniel Akst 2011
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Mr. Slatkin hadn't just noted in passing that he was scuffling to get up to speed with an opera he had never conducted before; he was seized with a fit of electronic logorrhea, endlessly chit-chattering online in a way guaranteed to prejudice the critics, the performers and the audience against him.
A Blog Too Far: How the Maestro Made Them Mad Eric Felten 2010
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Jo-Jo screams, finally snapping in the face of Hairston's logorrhea.
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Was this the MSM, craven as ever, slavishly following the lead of the artistocracy - those who decide which frauds and daubs, which slabs of self-obsessed upper-middle-class logorrhea - constitute Art and Literature?
Tony Hendra: George Carlin: The Last Words You Can't Say on Television 2010
stpeter commented on the word logorrhea
A tendency to extreme loquacity. Not to be confused with blogorrhea.
December 9, 2006
mercy commented on the word logorrhea
It sounds so damn painful, really.
July 2, 2008
reesetee commented on the word logorrhea
To those around the person who has it, yes, it is. ;-)
July 2, 2008
immerbeta commented on the word logorrhea
log-uh-RI-uh, n an excessive flow of words, prolixity Gr logos word + roia flow, stream
cite from the International House of Logorrhea
September 26, 2008
sionnach commented on the word logorrhea
excessive timber harvesting
(Lewis M Gediman : Semantricks)
January 8, 2009
Emak.Bakia commented on the word logorrhea
Another form of the word is "logorhhoea." I did not note where I first saw this spelling, but a quick Google search also brings this up.
August 11, 2009
roseandivy commented on the word logorrhea
So what would word *constipation* be called?
April 24, 2010
stuartmathergibson commented on the word logorrhea
logorrhea
pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking
March 29, 2022