Logorrhea (Noun)
Meaning
Pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking.
Classification
Nouns denoting goals.
Examples
- Her grandmother's logorrhea made family gatherings overwhelming and unbearable to be around for long periods of time.
- A condition called logorrhea took control of his verbal faculties after an accident, leaving him unable to filter or manage his speech.
- The retired school teacher's notorious logorrhea led his friends to politely suggest they only visit him in short intervals to avoid exhaustion from excessive listening.
- Suffering from logorrhea following her recent stroke, she kept calling her friend late at night with rambling tales of obscure events that were hardly intelligible.
- Friends who interacted with the artist suspected that her logorrhea was, in part, self-inflicted as a direct result of taking over-the-counter stimulants that were meant to fuel her creative pursuits but actually caused verbal chaos instead.