Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Excessive use of words.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Morbid loquacity and rapidity of speech.
Wiktionary
- n. medicine, US An excessive and often uncontrollable flow of words.
- n. humorous, US Excessive talkativeness.
WordNet 3.0
- n. pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking
Etymologies
- From New Latin, from Latin logos ("word, utternance"), from Ancient Greek λόγος (logos) + ῥοία (rhoia, "flow") (Wiktionary)
Examples
“BL40 would probably be classified as logorrhea, but there's no doubt that this slider is handsome.”
“That year, the $40,000 grand prize went to Nupur Lala, an Indian-American girl who correctly spelled "logorrhea" in the final round.”
The Wall Street Journal: Winning Bees Spells Glory for Indian Kids on the Ethnic Circuit
“He tempers his logorrhea with consciously chosen and, as far as I can tell, arbitrary limits.”
“The winner that year correctly spelled "logorrhea.”
The Wall Street Journal: Tycoon Churned Out Doctors in Caribbean
“But his eccentric concepts and pseudo-intellectual logorrhea aren't just the product of his own eccentricities.”
“In all these cases, limited capacity ruled out logorrhea.”
“Mr. Slatkin hadn't just noted in passing that he was scuffling to get up to speed with an opera he had never conducted before; he was seized with a fit of electronic logorrhea, endlessly chit-chattering online in a way guaranteed to prejudice the critics, the performers and the audience against him.”
The Wall Street Journal: A Blog Too Far: How the Maestro Made Them Mad
“Jo-Jo screams, finally snapping in the face of Hairston's logorrhea.”
“Was this the MSM, craven as ever, slavishly following the lead of the artistocracy - those who decide which frauds and daubs, which slabs of self-obsessed upper-middle-class logorrhea - constitute Art and Literature?”
The Huffington Post: Tony Hendra: George Carlin: The Last Words You Can't Say on Television
“Jeebus, I really should get a handle on my logorrhea.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘logorrhea’.
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sdamle1
echt
echt, apocalypse, resurgence, forthright, logorrhea, mercurial, torrid, exorcise, obscure, intrusive, morose, vindictive and 100 more...
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gre
municipal, whit, dissembler, berate, liberally, embellish, dissimilitude, histrionics, flamboyance, bombastic, bovine, calumny and 142 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Silly-sounding words
Serious words that sound silly when you say them
philosophunculist, argy-bargy, Labradoodle, shittah, shittim, floccinaucinihili..., succedaneum, honorificabilitud..., fag-ma-fuff, buffarilla, yazzihamper, mammothrept and 140 more...
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#faveword
Words chosen as favorites for the Twitter hashtag #faveword.
autumnal, grotto, chiaroscuro, sfumato, homunculus, zing, zest, effervescent, bewitch, avuncular, susurrus, Styrofoam and 205 more...
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phrontistery - l
from phrontistery.info
labarum, labefactation, labeorphily, labidometer, labile, lability, labiomancy, labret, labrose, labtebricole, lac, laccolith and 496 more...
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GRE words Review
Review for GRE
Martinet, Polyglot, Hack, berate, hystrionics, shun, sullen, wanton, reluctant, miser, unseemly, perfunctory and 11 more...
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Words About Words
code-switching, amphiboly, hermeneutics, echolalia, boustrophedon, logorrhea, trope, harangue, shibboleth, rhotic, susurrous, metonymy and 6 more...
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Not Dirty Words
volvulus, quincunx, testudinate, macerate, defalcate, woodcock, titular, invaginate, logorrhea, jaculate, spatchcock
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Remember Not To Forget
Sephardic, Umwelt, amphiboly, untrammeled, sequela, pandiculation, tensegrity, syncretism, pugilism, shemagh, disquisition, perspicacity and 65 more...
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Medical terms or linguistic terms?
That's a terrible ablative case. Get me some morpheme, stet!
stet, stat, morpheme, morphine, ablative case, salmonella, morphology, nephrology, alethic modality, anaphoric clitic, bolus, hyperbole and 54 more...
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The Fantastic Chiliastic
chiliastic, hapax legomenon, anosognosia, jactitation, infundibular, twee, callipygian, tintinnabulation, prestidigitation, anhedonia, coprolalia, parapraxis and 15 more...
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gre2
aberrant, aberration, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate and 1861 more...
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You Don't Say
Language disorders, disabilities, and unusual demonstrations.
aphasia, aphonia, dysarthria, glossolalia, paraphasia, alexia, polymicrogyria, logorrhea, stutter, spoonerism, agraphia, malapropism and 54 more...
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All The Words
I enjoy collecting words, for I have no fear of them ever running out.
anacoluthon, defenestration, hypnopomp, hypnagogue, idioglossia, panopticon, tatterdemalion, abalone, caltrop, miasma, paroxysm, smalt and 475 more...
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ICE
quincunx, adoxography, panjundrum, breloque, surd, scripturient, rousant, favrile, embouchure, aquarelle, griffonage, sussultatory and 234 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for logorrhea.
roseandivy So what would word *constipation* be called? Apr 23, 2010
Emak.Bakia Another form of the word is "logorhhoea." I did not note where I first saw this spelling, but a quick Google search also brings this up. Aug 11, 2009
sionnach
excessive timber harvesting
(Lewis M Gediman : Semantricks) Jan 8, 2009
immerbeta log-uh-RI-uh, n an excessive flow of words, prolixity Gr logos word + roia flow, stream
cite from the International House of Logorrhea Sep 26, 2008
reesetee To those around the person who has it, yes, it is. ;-) Jul 2, 2008
mercy It sounds so damn painful, really. Jul 2, 2008
stpeter A tendency to extreme loquacity. Not to be confused with blogorrhea. Dec 9, 2006