Logorrhea

Quick meaning: Logorrhea is a noun meaning (often humorous) Excessive talkativeness.

Meaning

(often humorous) Excessive talkativeness.

More Meanings

1. (often humorous) Excessive use of words in writing; prolixity.
2. (psychology) Excessive and often uncontrollable speaking due to a mental disorder.

Example Sentences

His purchase of a Dictaphone no doubt encouraged his natural loquacity, his ingrained prolixity (which he himself logorrhoea).

The early period of glasnost' encouraged a variety of graphomania and logorrhea—from numerous letters to the newspapers to memoirs, "true stories," opinions, and revelations of wide political range.

The writer should endeavor to have his observations first of all, exact, then apposite, and finally as brief as the nature of the case will admit. [...] Logorrhea and irrelevancy are the bane of a society.

So when I settled down that day I wrote feverishly and I wrote joyously. I wrote until my fingers were cramped and my head was empty. I surrendered to a blithe logorrhea that left me contentedly limp and lax and in need of an hour or two of open air.

Word Forms

• logorrheas
• logorrhoea

Synonyms for logorrhea

Depending on context, synonyms include loquaciousness, chattiness, garrulity, logorrhoea, loquacity, multiloquence.

Antonyms for logorrhea

Common opposites include reticence, taciturnity, brevity, briefness, conciseness, concision.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include logomania, logorrhoea, blathering, blarney, blather, coprolalia.

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