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Logorrhea Law Guh Ree Uh Noun Excessive Flow Words Incoherent Greek

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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