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Logorrhea Law Guh Ree Uh Noun Excessive Flow Words Incoherent Greek

'Logorrhea' describes an excessive and often incoherent flow of words.

'Logorrhea' describes an excessive and often incoherent flow of words.

Front logorrhea \law-guh-REE-uh\
Back noun
Excessive flow of words, especially when incoherent.

[From Greek logo- (word) + -rrhea (flow), from rhoia (flow). Also see rhinorrhea. Earliest documented use: 1902.]

"Dumas suffers from logorrhea, induced by the simple formula that the more he wrote, the more money he made." - Erik Spanberg; The Count of Monte Cristo; The Christian Science Monitor (Boston, Massachusetts); Feb 6, 2011. 

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