Meanings
nounlogomaniac (plural logomaniacs)
plural logomaniacs
- One who is obsessed with words.
Willy's speech, like Doc's, is a rolling bricolage of cliche, literary quotation, epigram, advertising slogan and salvage from the past. To some extent, the presence in the book of a drunken logomaniac such as Willy gives Auster's prose a new exuberance.
1999 June 21, Toby Mundy, “Novel of the week: Timbuktu by Paul Auster”, in New Statesman, retrieved 27 Sep 2010
Synonyms & antonyms
Also see
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*leǵ-
- Proto-Indo-European*lóǵos
- Proto-Hellenic*lógos
- Ancient Greekλόγος (lógos)
- Englishlogo-
- Englishlogomaniac
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with logomaniac
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All rhymes →Cite this entry
APA
logomaniac. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/logomaniac
MLA
“logomaniac.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/logomaniac. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “logomaniac,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/logomaniac.
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