'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\ |
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| 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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