logorrhea

noun logorrheas · logorrhoea · logorrhœa

1. US, countable, humorous, often, uncountable 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.

   Similar: garrulousness, loquaciousness, chattiness, diarrhea of the mouth, garrulity, logorrhea, logorrhoea, loquacity, multiloquence, talkativeness, talkativity, verbal diarrhea · Opposite: reticence, taciturnity

2. US, countable, humorous, often, uncountable 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.

   Similar: ambages, circumlocution, logorrhea, logorrhoea, long-windedness, overwordiness, periphrase, periphrasis, perissology, prolixity, verboseness, verbosity · Opposite: brevity, briefness, conciseness, concision, laconicalness, laconicism, laconicity, laconism, succinctness, terseness

3. US, countable, uncountable 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.