Logorrhoea
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Logorrhoea is a noun meaning (British spelling) Alternative spelling of logorrhea.
Meaning
(British spelling) Alternative spelling of logorrhea.
Example Sentences
His purchase of a Dictaphone no doubt encouraged his natural loquacity, his ingrained prolixity (which he himself logorrhoea).
The quantity of speech may be increased in mania and anxiety but reduced in dementia, schizophrenia and depression. [...] In logorrhoea, also called volubility, the speech is fluent and rambling, with the use of many words.
The baritone is angry, but still controlled: he does not indulge in compulsive over-rapid spurts of logorrhoeas but keeps to a 'chopped, short, hard, very pointed' staccato-like delivery, excited, but well articulated through interruptions of differing lengths.
In many cases Philip [II of Spain] lapsed into a logorrhoea that not only revealed the thought processes that underlay his decisions but also shared details on his personal life – when and where he ate and slept; what he had just read; which trees and flowers he wanted to plant in his gardens (and where); how problems with his eyes, his legs or his wrist, or a cold or a headache, had made him fall behind with his paperwork.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include rhinorrhoea, hoo-hah, hullaballoo, hoohah, hallabaloo, hoohar.
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