logorrhea

Thân thiện

A patient exhibits logorrhea during a therapy session.

Definition

Noun: 1. Pathologically excessive and often incoherent talking: A medical and psychological term for a compulsive, uncontrollable, and often rapid flow of speech that may be disconnected or nonsensical. It is considered a symptom of certain mental or neurological conditions.

Usage

• logorrhea is a formal, clinical term. It is not used in everyday conversation to describe someone who simply talks a lot. It implies a pathological or disordered state.
• It functions as a singular, uncountable noun (e.g., "The patient's logorrhea was noted.").

Examples

• The psychiatrist observed signs of logorrhea in the patient, whose speech was rapid, pressured, and difficult to interrupt.
• A symptom of the manic phase can be logorrhea, where thoughts and words spill out in an incoherent stream.
• His nervous logorrhea made it impossible to have a focused conversation.

Advanced Usage

• The term can be used metaphorically in literary or critical contexts to describe written prose that is excessively wordy, rambling, and lacking in substance.
  • Example: The author's logorrhea drowned the novel's plot in a sea of unnecessary descriptions.

Variants and Related Words

• Logorrheic (adjective): Characterized by or relating to logorrhea.
  • Example: The patient exhibited logorrheic speech patterns.

Synonyms

• Verbal diarrhea (informal, idiomatic)
• Pressured speech (clinical, specific to mood disorders)
• Garrulousness (less clinical, implies excessive talkativeness but not necessarily pathological incoherence)
• Volubility (implies fluent, rapid speech, not necessarily pathological)

Antonyms

• Laconicism (brevity in speech)
• Reticence (reserve in speaking)
• Mutism (inability or refusal to speak)

Học thuật

Noun

1. pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking

Từ đồng nghĩa

• logomania