noun
- excessive or uncontrollable talkativeness; a tendency to talk excessively or at great length
Usage: Also spelled 'logorrhea' in American English; Often used to describe speech that is verbose or difficult to stop; Can be a symptom in certain medical or psychological conditions
Examples
- The politician's speech was criticized for its logorrhoea; he rambled on for hours without making a clear point.
- Her logorrhoea made it difficult for others to get a word in during conversations.
- The patient's logorrhoea was one of the symptoms noted by the psychiatrist.
- He suffered from logorrhoea, unable to stop talking even when his audience had lost interest.
- The meeting was derailed by the CEO's logorrhoea as he went off on tangent after tangent.
- Teachers sometimes encounter students with logorrhoea who dominate class discussions.