logorrhean

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adjective

Relating to logorrhea (excessive talkativeness or verbosity).

Scrabble 14

Meanings

adjectivelogorrhean (comparative more logorrhean, superlative most logorrhean)

comparative more logorrhean · superlative most logorrhean

  1. Relating to logorrhea (excessive talkativeness or verbosity).

    Considering that—if all systems were go—4000 could probably write the equivalent of Paradise Lost in nine-and-one-tenth seconds, you can readily imagine that there is practically no end to the making of verses by this logorrhean machine.

    1963 December, F. P. Tullius, “After Hours”, in Harper's Magazine, volume 227, number 1363, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, Publishers, Incorporated, page 26, column 2
    1 more example

    Tinmantis, a mysterious, pseudonymous artist who works out of a garage in suburban Charlotte, N.C., combines the logorrhean wit of Raymond Pettibon with the fluency of a meme account admin, cranking out one cutting cultural observation after another.

    2026 July 9, Max Lakin, Dawn Chan, Walker Mimms, Travis Diehl, “Art Gallery Shows to See in July”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*leǵ-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*lóǵos
  3. Proto-Hellenic*lógos
  4. Ancient Greekλόγος (lógos)
  5. Englishlogo-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*ser-?
  7. Proto-Indo-European*srew-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*sréweti
  9. Proto-Hellenic*hréwō
  10. Ancient Greekῥέω (rhéō)
  11. Ancient Greekῥοία (rhoía)
  12. Englishlogorrhea
  13. Englishlogorrhean

From logorrhea + -an.

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APA

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Chicago

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