logorrhoea

Noun

logorrhea (countable and uncountable, plural logorrheas)

1. (US, humorous, often) Excessive talkativeness.
   • 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.1894 October 12, “Literary Degeneration”, in Public Opinion […], volume LXVI, number 1,725, London: […] Spottiswoode & Co., […], →OCLC, page 460, column 1

   Synonyms:

   garrulousness, loquaciousness, chattiness, diarrhea of the mouth, garrulity, logorrhoea, loquacity, multiloquence, talkativeness, talkativity

   Antonyms:

   reticence, taciturnity

2. (US, humorous, often) Excessive use of words in writing; prolixity.
   • 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.1878 April, “Editorial. Local Medical Societies.”, in W. C. Chapman, Thomas Waddel, editors, The Toledo Medical and Surgical Journal, volume II, number 4, Toledo, Oh.: Medical Press Association...

   Synonyms:

   ambages, circumlocution, logorrhoea, long-windedness, overwordiness, periphrase, periphrasis, perissology, prolixity, verboseness

   Antonyms:

   brevity, briefness, conciseness, concision, laconicalness, laconicism, laconicity, laconism, succinctness, terseness

3. (US) Excessive and often uncontrollable speaking due to a mental disorder.
   • 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.1874 April, Thomas Laycock, “Article I.—On Certain Organic Disorders and Defects of Memory.”, in Edinburgh Medical Journal, […], volume XIX, part II, number X, Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, […]...