Meaning of logolepsy | Babel Free

Definitions

A fascination or obsession with words.

rare, uncountable

Examples

“Thanks to the magic of teleconferencing, often the format for a given show is call-in, and the phones and airwaves crackle with logolepsy.”

“A case of logolepsy is easily distinguished from the perfectly sane mood which demands and imperiosly seizes the pregnant sign, and makes it the exponent of a hidden power.”

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