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logorrhea.

Excessive talkativeness.

9 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˌlɒ.ɡəˈɹɪ.ə/Received-Pronunciation[-ɹiː-]Received-Pronunciation/ˌlɔ.ɡəˈɹi.ə/General-American[ˌlɒ-]General-American
  1. Excessive talkativeness.

    US · countable · humorous · often · uncountable
  2. Excessive use of words in writing; prolixity.

    US · countable · humorous · often · uncountable
  3. Excessive and often uncontrollable speaking due to a mental disorder.

    US · countable · uncountable
Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *lóǵos Proto-Hellenic *lógos Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)bor. English logo- Proto-Indo-European *ser-? Proto-Indo-European *srew- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *sréweti Proto-Hellenic *hréwō Ancient Greek ῥέω (rhéō) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ίᾱ (-íā) Ancient Greek ῥοία (rhoía)bor. English -rrhea English logorrhea 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”)).

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