logorrhea
Meanings
Plural: logorrheas
Noun
- pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking
- Excessive talkativeness.
- Excessive use of words in writing; prolixity.
- Excessive and often uncontrollable speaking due to a mental disorder.
Origin / Etymology
From logo- (prefix meaning ‘word; speech’) + -rrhea (suffix meaning ‘flowing’), probably modelled after verbal diarrhea. logo- is derived from Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos, “word; speech; utterance”) (from λέγω (légō, “to say, speak; to arrange; to gather”), from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to collect, gather”)), while -rrhea is from ῥοία (rhoía, “a flow, flux”) (from ῥέω (rhéō, “to flow”), from Proto-Indo-European *srew- (“to flow”)).
Synonyms
ambages, chattiness, circumlocution, diarrhea of the mouth, garrulity, garrulousness, logomania, logorrhea, logorrhoea, long-windedness, loquaciousness, loquacity, multiloquence, overwordiness, periphrase, periphrasis, perissology, prolixity, talkativeness, verbal diarrhea, verbal diarrhoea, verboseness, verbosity, wordiness
Antonyms
circumlocution, reticence, taciturnity, verbiage, verbosity, wordage, wordiness
Scrabble Score: 13
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