logorrhea

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˌlɒ.ɡəˈɹɪ.ə/|[-ɹiː-]    美 /ˌlɔ.ɡəˈɹi.ə/|[ˌlɒ-]|[-ˈɹiː-]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Excessive talkativeness. US,countable,humorous,often,uncountable
    — These "Symbolists" are characterised by unbounded vanity and self-sufficiency; they are highly emotional; their thinking is hazy and disconnected. They suffer from "Logorrhea" or "sickly talkativeness," and are unable to perform any work which requires concentration and persistency.
  2. Excessive use of words in writing; prolixity. US,countable,humorous,often,uncountable
    — The writer should endeavor to have his observations first of all, exact, then apposite, and finally as brief as the nature of the case will admit. [...] Logorrhea and irrelevancy are the bane of a society.
  3. Excessive and often uncontrollable speaking due to a mental disorder. US,countable,uncountable
    — 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.

词形变化

logorrheas plural logorrhoea alternative logorrhœa alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
blogorrhea logorrheic logorrheically

词源

From logo- (prefix meaning ‘word; speech’) + -rrhea (suffix meaning ‘flowing’), probably modelled after verbal diarrhea. logo- is derived from Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos, “word; speech; utterance”) (from λέγω (légō, “to say, speak; to arrange; to gather”), from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to collect, gather”)), while -rrhea is from ῥοία (rhoía, “a flow, flux”) (from ῥέω (rhéō, “to flow”), from Proto-Indo-European *srew- (“to flow”)).
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