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Definition of Logorrhea
1. Noun. Pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking.
Definition of Logorrhea
1. Noun. (context: medicine US) An excessive and often uncontrollable flow of words. ¹
2. Noun. (context: humorous US) Excessive talkativeness. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Logorrhea
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Logorrhea
Literary usage of Logorrhea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nervous and Mental Diseases by Archibald Church, Frederick Peterson (1919)
"The flight of ideas in mania is naturally most conspicuous in the speech of the
patient, which varies from garrulity to logorrhea. In the milder degrees of ..."
2. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"... or they talk rapidly and continuously (logorrhea), or confusedly, in unintelligible
sentences, mixed up with rhymes and alliterations (speech-confusion, ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1906)
"... logorrhea. and jargon; serial and imitative speech well retained, mild degree
of alexia, understanding it defective for spoken language, ..."
4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1906)
"... logorrhea. and jargon; serial and imitative speech well retained, mild degree
of alexia, understanding it defective for spoken language, ..."
5. Idling in Italy: Studies of Literature and of Life by Joseph Collins (1920)
"Signor Papini has been an omnivorous reader along certain lines; he has been a
tireless writer, and he is notorious for his neologistic logorrhea, ..."
6. The Unsound Mind and the Law: A Presentation of Forensic Psychiatry by George W. Jacoby (1918)
"Moreover, the maniac has a tendency to talk incessantly—he suffers from "logorrhea"—and
all his speeches revolve about himself. In the lighter form of mania ..."
7. Diseases of the nervous system by Smith Ely Jelliffe, William Alanson White (1917)
"... agraphia, logorrhea, and total word-deafness. Large tumors also cause indirect
symptoms and may lead, by pressure on motor areas—Broca—to total aphasia, ..."
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