Wednesday, December 07, 2005

word for the day, "logorrhea"

logorrhea \law-guh-REE-uh\, noun: Excessive talkativeness or wordiness.

By his own measure, he is a man of many contradictions, beginning with the fact that he is famous as a listener but suffers from "a touch of logorrhea." [NY TIMES]

Logorrhea is derived from Greek logos, "word" + rhein, "to flow."

[from dictionary.com]

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