logorrhea
English
/ˌlɒ.ɡəˈɹɪ.ə/, /ˌlɔ.ɡəˈɹi.ə/
noun
Definitions
- (often) Excessive talkativeness.
- (often) Excessive use of words in writing; prolixity.
- (psychology) Excessive and often uncontrollable speaking due to a mental disorder.
Etymology
Derived from Ancient Greek λόγος (word, speech, reason, account, study, discourse, oration, utterance, narrative, calculation, quote, story, ratio, explanation, debate, computation, reasoning, reckoning) derived from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (gather, collect, leak, select, pick out, drain, speak), *srew- (flow, stream), *leǵ- (gather, collect, leak, select, pick out, drain, speak).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*leǵ-
Gloss
gather, collect, leak, select, pick out, drain, speak
Concept
Semantic Field
Spatial relations
Ontological Category
Action/Process
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Cognates and derived terms
- -lect English
- exorheic English
- haplogy English
- intelligible English
- lexicography English
- logo- English
- logolepsy English
- logopedics English
- logorrheic English
- logorrheically English
- logos English
- logotype English
- protologism English
- rheumatic English
- rheumatism English
- Rauma Finnish
- *exēligere Latin
- Roma Latin
- Sorvioduni Latin
- collega Latin
- colligō Latin
- delegationis, delegatio Latin
- diligentem Latin
- dīlēctus Latin
- electrix Latin
- intellectus Latin
- intellego Latin
- intellegēns, intelligens Latin
- intellegō Latin
- lectus Latin
- legio Latin
- legiō Latin
- legō Latin
- logarithmus Latin
- loquor Latin
- lēx, lēgem Latin
- ēligere Latin
- codicologia Italian
- логос Russian
- -logía Spanish, Castilian
- neologismo Spanish, Castilian
- -λογία Ancient Greek
- -λογῐ́ᾱ Ancient Greek
- -λόγος Ancient Greek
- διαλογίζομαι Ancient Greek
- εὐλογέω Ancient Greek
- εὐλογία Ancient Greek
- θεολόγος Ancient Greek
- λέγω Ancient Greek
- λεξικόν Ancient Greek
- λεξικὸν βιβλίον Ancient Greek
- λογίζομαι Ancient Greek
- λογεῖον Ancient Greek
- λογικός Ancient Greek
- λογισμός Ancient Greek
- λογιστικός Ancient Greek
- λογογράφος Ancient Greek
- λογομαχία Ancient Greek
- λόγιον Ancient Greek
- λόγος Ancient Greek
- παιδείᾱ Ancient Greek
- πρόλογος Ancient Greek
- συλλογίζομαι Ancient Greek
- συλλογισμός Ancient Greek
- τριλογία Ancient Greek
- ἀνθολογία Ancient Greek
- ἀνθρωπόλογος Ancient Greek
- ἀντίλογος Ancient Greek
- ἀξιόλογος Ancient Greek
- ἀπολογία Ancient Greek
- ἀστρολογία Ancient Greek
- ἀστρολόγος Ancient Greek
- ἐπίλογος Ancient Greek
- ἠθολογία Ancient Greek
- ἠθολόγος Ancient Greek
- ὁμολογέω Ancient Greek
- ῥέω Ancient Greek
- ῥεῖθρον Ancient Greek
- ῥεῦμα Ancient Greek
- ῥύσις Ancient Greek
- *-i-eh₂, *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰlew- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰlewH- Proto-Indo-European
- *leǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- *polh₁ús Proto-Indo-European
- *sre/ow-te-s Proto-Indo-European
- *srew- Proto-Indo-European
- *srowmos Proto-Indo-European
- *sru-tó-s Proto-Indo-European
- *sréw-e-ti Proto-Indo-European
- *strow- Proto-Indo-European
- logaritme Norwegian Bokmål
- logo Norwegian Bokmål
- Logos Portuguese
- eleger Portuguese
- *lakō Proto-Germanic
- *lekaną Proto-Germanic
- *lēkijō Proto-Germanic
- *straumaz Proto-Germanic
- logaritme Norwegian Nynorsk
- logo Norwegian Nynorsk
- स्रवति Sanskrit
- स्रुव Sanskrit
- *struja Proto-Slavic
- *strumy Proto-Slavic
- logos Czech
- صِين Arabic
- логос Serbo-Croatian
- neoloxismo Galician
- ornitoloxía Galician
- λόγος Greek (modern)
- arkeologi Indonesian
- գետառ Old Armenian
- zgjedh Albanian
- zgledh Albanian
- ეპისტემოლოგია Georgian
- *srutom Proto-Celtic
- *to- Proto-Celtic
- epistemolojia Swahili
- *legō Proto-Italic
- строуꙗ Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- srovė Lithuanian
- srūti Lithuanian
- *luke- Proto-Uralic
- läk- Tocharian B
- läk- Tocharian A
- epistemalaji Jamaican Creole