Word of the Day for Tuesday December 6, 2005 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." He is so [1]voluble that one wonders how his subjects get a word in edgewise. --Mel Gussow, "Listener, Talker, Now Literary Lion: It's Official." [2]New York Times, June 17, 1997 It's also not good if your date has logorrhea. --Monte Williams, "8 Minutes in the Life of a Jewish Single: Not Attracted? Next!" [3]New York Times, March 5, 2000 Mr. King, who possesses an enviable superabundance of imagination, suffers from a less enviable logorrhea. --Michele Slung, "Scare Tactics." [4]New York Times, May 10, 1981 _________________________________________________________ Logorrhea is derived from Greek logos, "word" + rhein, "to flow." References 1. http://dictionary.com/wordoftheday/archive/2002/02/17.html 2. http://www.nytimes.com/ 3. http://www.nytimes.com/ 4. http://www.nytimes.com/ Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=9&q=logorrhea