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English
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Etymology
logorrhea + -ic
Adjective
logorrheic (comparative more logorrheic, superlative most logorrheic)
- Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting logorrhea, the excessive flow of words
- It was a long, logorrheic tale.
1905, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Text-book of Insanity, page 495:The content of this logorrheic delirium is mainly made up of recent events.
1936 November 2, “Last Lap”, in Time, archived from the original on 22 December 2008:In a logorrheic swirl of speeches, talks, statements, challenges and replies Republican Nominee Alf Landon thrust halfway across the continent and all the way back from coast to coast last week […]
2007 February 2, Eugene Robinson, “An Inarticulate Kickoff”, in Washington Post:I'll leave it to Joe Biden to explain (or figure out) why he used "clean" as one of a logorrheic string of adjectives describing his Senate colleague Barack Obama.
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Translations
having excessive flow of words