logorrhea

Pathological verbal overflow

Logorrhea is excessive and often incoherent talkativeness, a flood of words that may lack substance or coherence.

The term carries clinical overtones, sometimes describing a symptom of mental disorders, but it's more commonly used as a pointed criticism of someone who won't stop talking or writing: His logorrhea made every meeting run an hour over.

The word combines Greek roots for "word" and "flow," which aptly captures the sense of verbal overflow.

speech

garrulous

Tediously long-winded

loquaciousInclined to talk much
volubleInclined to talk freely
talkativeInclined to speak much

chatty · effusive · expansive · glib · fluent · mouthy · motormouth · chatterbox · gabby · blabby

incoherence

babble

Incoherent speech

gibberishUnintelligible speech or writing
prattleTrivial, prolonged speech
blatherFoolish, pointless chatter

drivel · jabber · gabble · yammer · maunder · ramble · twaddle · blither · natter · patter

verbosity

verbose

More words than necessary

wordyUsing more language than necessary
prolixExcessively wordy in speech
long-windedExcessively wordy, tediously so

rambling · circumlocutory · periphrastic · pleonastic · turgid · redundant · superfluous · tautological · digressive · overwrought

pathological

mania

Intense, consuming obsession

compulsionIrresistible urge to act
pressured speechRapid, urgent verbalization
flight of ideasRapid unconnected thought shifts

bipolar · schizophrenia · aphasia · neurological · psychiatric · symptom · disorder · clinical · involuntary · uncontrollable

overwhelming

flood

Overwhelming water overflow

torrentViolent rushing flow
delugeSevere overflow of water
inundationOverwhelming surge of water

avalanche · barrage · onslaught · bombardment · glut · overflow · surfeit · excess · profusion · cascade

logorrhea

garrulous

babble

verbose

mania

flood

logorrhea

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