Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who has a mania for using words in extraordinary, striking senses.
Wiktionary
- n. A person who is obsessed with words, has logolepsy
Examples
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘logolept’.
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Amos.Oz's list
"I am very concerned with the state of words. Words keep me up at night."
~Stacy Piestarantism, lucubration, psychopomp, wlatsome, logolept, hypnogogic, aphenphosmphobia, ataraxia, huggles, lucubration, sennight, plumicorn and 10 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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Words featured in Mrs. Byrne's Dictio...
Selections from Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words by Josefa Heifetz Byrne (University Books, 1974). Definitions in the comments when not available elsewhere.
apanthropy, anoetic, aristology, ayne, bibliopole, bibliotaph, calecannon, caoine, catlap, chirospasm, clamjamfry, coadunate and 174 more...
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wordy words
paronomasia, parisology, verbolatry, verbiage, lexiphanic, logomachy, logolept, prosodic, prosody, enjambment, caesura, tetrameter and 4 more...
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cithra's thoughtful words
words I am thinking about
marble, alphabet, ordinary, munificent, rotound, blissful, reparations, orthognathic, reverbation, autonomy, mirth, arbitrary and 15 more...
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The List of Words
My list of words and the like.
contemptation, willow, longcat, shiny, watchan, esquivalience, kewl, amidoinitrite, lock pick, locksmith, half diamond, pattern interrupt and 71 more...
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Word words
logolept, logomachy, lemma, lethologica, lexiphanic, lipogram, sesquipedalian, catachresis, paronomasia, verbiage, spoonerism, verbolatry and 5 more...
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"L"-words
logolepsy, logolept, lethologica, lucubrate, laodicean, lanai, languor, lanate, lacinate, lacination
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mialuthien See also verbivore and logophile. Jul 26, 2008
flannagan A word maniac. Jul 30, 2007