Definition of logorrhea
:excessive and often incoherent talkativeness or wordiness
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the article suffers from the logorrhea that infects so much academic writing
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Audra is armed with a pronounced case of logorrhea, an untamed curiosity, an ability to befriend almost anyone.
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circumlocution, diffuseness, diffusion, garrulity, garrulousness, verbiage, long-windedness, periphrasis, prolixity, redundancy, verbalism, verboseness, verbosity, windiness, wordage, wordinessRelated Words
circuitousness, circularity, digressiveness; pleonasm, tautology; reiteration, repetition, repetitiousness, repetitiveness; embellishment, embroidering, exaggeration, hyperbole, overstatementNear Antonyms
brevity, briefness, compactness, conciseness, concision, crispness, pithiness, succinctness, tersenessMedical Dictionary
medical Definition of logorrhea
:pathologically excessive and often incoherent talkativeness or wordiness that is characteristic especially of the manic phase of bipolar disorder
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