logorrhea
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gəˈri noun
1.
pathologically incoherent, repetitious speech.
2.
incessant or compulsive talkativeness; wearisome volubility.
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logorrhoea or esp (US) logorrhea (ˌlɒɡəˈrɪə) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
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| excessive, uncontrollable, or incoherent talkativeness | |
| logorrhea or esp (US) logorrhea | |
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Logorrhea
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Medical Dictionary
logorrhea log·or·rhe·a (lŏg'ə-rē'ə)
n.
Excessive use of words.
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Example sentences
Her logorrhea may deflect grief and loss, but it also rebuffs everyone around her.
Serious writers are sometimes mocked for logorrhea as well.
It's no wonder some suffer from logorrhea dementia, the malady of being driven insane by the act of talking too much.
Moody has continued turning out those terrifically weird sentences, long incantatory jags of deadpan logorrhea.
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