OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 10536

logorrhea

/ˌlɒ.ɡəˈɹɪ.ə/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
logorrea
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 m…
When the patient was admitted to this hospital five years ago, the symptoms of excitement in the wide sense, violence, aggressiveness, destructiveness, logorrhœa, were in the foreg…