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. An excessive and often uncontrollable flow of words.
- n. Excessive talkativeness.
WordNet 3.0
- n. pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking
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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municipal, whit, dissembler, berate, liberally, embellish, dissimilitude, histrionics, flamboyance, bombastic, bovine, calumny and 142 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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What the H?
Words that I could probably spell correctly without having to look them up every single damn time were it not for an apparently extraneous and randomly placed h.
jodhpur, diarrhea, ankh, myrrh, hemorrhoids, baghdad, rhombus, rhythm, hemorrhage, sheikh, catarrh, maharajah and 21 more...
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It means what?
Definitions you'd never surmise from their spelling.
vexillologist, biocide, earworm, moon carrots, logorrhea, uberous, unguiculate, uropoietic, reciprocornous, recrudescence, rectrix, succorrhoea and 39 more...
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Chelsea's list
acedia, braggadocio, abnegation, equanimity, flibbertigibbet, edentulous, debonair, hypnotic, pococurante, logorrhea, euonym, feckless and 23 more...
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You Don't Say
Language disorders, disabilities, and unusual demonstrations.
aphasia, aphonia, dysarthria, glossolalia, paraphasia, apraxia, alexia, polymicrogyria, logorrhea, stutter, spoonerism, freudian slip and 22 more...
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logo-
of or relating to words
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-rrhea, -rrhoea, rheo-
discharge, flow
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