Meaning of logorrhoea | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative spelling of logorrhea.
   UK, alt-of, alternative, uncountable
2. Obsolete spelling of logorrhea.
   UK, alt-of, obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“The baritone is angry, but still controlled: he does not indulge in compulsive over-rapid spurts of logorrhoeas but keeps to a 'chopped, short, hard, very pointed' staccato-like delivery, excited, but well articulated through interruptions of differing lengths.”

“The quantity of speech may be increased in mania and anxiety but reduced in dementia, schizophrenia and depression. [...] In logorrhoea, also called volubility, the speech is fluent and rambling, with the use⟳ of many words.”

“His purchase⟳ of a Dictaphone no doubt⟳ encouraged his natural loquacity, his ingrained prolixity (which he himself logorrhoea).”

“In many cases Philip [II of Spain] lapsed into a logorrhoea that not only revealed the thought processes that underlay his decisions but also shared details on his personal life – when and where he ate and slept; what he had just read⟳; which trees and flowers he wanted to plant⟳ in his gardens (and where); how problems with his eyes, his legs or his wrist, or a cold or a headache, had made him fall⟳ behind with his paperwork.”

“But, then, these persons have⟳ not only a copia verborum as to knowledge, but a volubility sometimes amounting to a logorrhœa in expressing what they know⟳—although that may not be much.”

“When the patient was admitted to this hospital five years ago, the symptoms of excitement in the wide sense⟳, violence, aggressiveness, destructiveness, logorrhœa, were in the foreground as they had been during the previous attacks.”

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