logorrhea
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9.9
- noun
- /lɒɡəˈriːə/
- Specialized
- First word: Logorrhea.
Examples
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Brian wasn't sure whether this was an improvement on the unconscious logorrhea or not.
Fiction book (2002) -
Define logorrhea.
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Okay, this is just logorrhea at this point.
Blog text (7) -
Logorrhea, it's diarrhea of the mouth.
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He's just some crazy nut who had a bad case of logorrhea.
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I mean, they're both kind of like a spray, but logorrhea, that's a spray of words from the mouth, you know?
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Besides, against quacks, my blog is my shotgun, and words are my buckshot, a particularly apt metaphor given my tendency towards logorrhea.
Blog text (7) -
Nicaraguans remain trapped in a discourse not of their own invention, but unable to break the circuit of the "logorrhea" (Barthes 1972).
Academic text (1991) -
Rheum and rhea—the flow again, as in diarrhea—logorrhea: excessive flow of words—already on the threshold of gibberish.
Academic text (2017) -
The teacher noted that his student often suffered from logorrhea during class discussions, making it hard for others to contribute.
Synonyms
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9.9
Talking too much in an annoying, uncontrolled way
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7.5
Talking or writing with too many words makes people bored
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8.9
A habit of talking a lot about unimportant things
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9.9
A lot of talking about small unimportant things
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7.9
Fast, unclear talk that is hard to understand
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9.9
Talking too much and too fast with little control
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6.8
Speaking or writing with more words than needed and making the meaning unclear
Antonyms
How Talkative
- Specialized
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9.9
- Formal
1
8.9
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7.3
- Formal
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9.9
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4.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word logorrhea comes from the Greek parts logos meaning 'word' and -rrhea meaning 'flow', as in diarrhea which also means a 'flow'. So it literally means a 'flow of words', which is why logorrhea describes excessive, hard-to-stop talking.