logorrhea

1. (often humorous) Excessive talkativeness.Examples: "These "Symbolists" are characterised by unbounded vanity and self-sufficiency; they are highly emotional; their thinking is hazy and disconnected. They suffer from "Logorrhea" or "sickly talkativeness," and are unable to perform any work which requires concentration and persistency."; "[Jacques] Rivette, bluntly, suffers from a good case of logorrhea. Even if he had none of these rationales, he would still make long films. In interviews he speaks in endless, ebullient sentences that surround their subjects like spider's webs and sometimes suffocate them."; "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."Synonyms: garrulousness, loquaciousness, chattiness, diarrhea of the mouth, garrulity, garrulousness, logorrhea, logorrhoeaAntonyms: reticence, taciturnityUScountablehumorousoftenuncountable

2. (often humorous) Excessive use of words in writing; prolixity.Examples: "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."; "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."Synonyms: ambages, circumlocution, logorrhea, logorrhoea, long-windedness, overwordiness, periphrase, periphrasisAntonyms: circumlocution, verbiage, verbosity, wordiness, wordageUScountablehumorousoftenuncountable

3. (psychology) Excessive and often uncontrollable speaking due to a mental disorder.Examples: "But, then, these persons have not only a copia verborum as to knowledge, but a volubility sometimes amounting to a logorrhœa in expressing what they know—although that may not be much."; "When the patient was admitted to this hospital five years ago, the symptoms of excitement in the wide sense, violence, aggressiveness, destructiveness, logorrhœa, were in the foreground as they had been during the previous attacks."; "In agreement with the general consensus of writers on the subject, they affirmed that logorrhea (a loss of control over the flow of speech and subsequent flood of verbiage often seen in adult Wernicke's aphasics) is not characteristic of aphasic children."UScountableuncountable