Definitions
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- noun medicine, UK An excessive and often uncontrollable flow of words.
- noun humorous, UK Excessive talkativeness.
Etymologies
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Examples
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One doesn't need to read all of that logorrhoea, aka verbal diarrhea, to recognize a nut case.
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Thankfully, I no longer go to this abhorrent nonsense replete with its jazz band and rock presentations and prebyters who suffer from systemic logorrhoea with three sermons per session and the uncontrollable urge to try to explain, even if poorly, everything they are doing.
More inculturation and liturgical "updating", courtesy of the Asian bishops 2009
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By 0730 I usually find myself in a state of logorrhoea and emotional disinhibition.
Planet Atheism Pharyngula 2010
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The spoken form of logorrhoea (other than in the medical sense) is a kind of verbosity which uses superfluous
Latest Articles Real Clear Politics 2010
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Benway cannot converse, he can only speechify and justify every cruelty and abomination through a logorrhoea of logic that bypasses deductive and inductive argument as well as all human empathy and feeling.
Comments for RealityStudio wal 2010
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And there is absolutely no enthusiasm for Gabble's Labourite logorrhoea either.
politicalbetting.com 2008
punchcard commented on the word logorrhoea
Logorrhoea — an excessively wordy style of abstract prose lacking concrete meaning, i.e. nonsense
Bet you thought it meant something else...
September 27, 2008
timonti commented on the word logorrhoea
I'd always prefer the slang usage, "Verbal diarrhoea"
August 31, 2010
Louises commented on the word logorrhoea
'I must like a whore unpack my heart with words.' 'Of course, but why?' 'Congenital logorrhoea.' From "The Last Werewolf" by Glen Duncan.
March 3, 2012