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a tendency to extreme loquacity

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logorrhoea
logorrhea
logorrheic



His absence here speaks every cliché in the world: “louder than words,” certainly louder than de La Grange’s logorrhea

—p.271 Conducting Mortality: On Henry-Louis de La Grange’s Mahler (260) by Joshua Cohen
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The second advantage of this logorrhea is that by its imperative character it passes quite naturally for the writer's very essence.

—p.23 The Writer on Vacation (22) by Roland Barthes
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the occasional ad-lib of stressed logorrhoea

—p.95 by David Foster Wallace
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The deadening logorrhea of failed communication is the endgame of late postmodernist literature

—p.135 Narcissism, Alienation, and Commun(al)ity (111) by Clare Hayes-Brady
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Lovecraft’s descriptions do not allow the reader to synthesise the logorrheic schizophony of adjectives into a mental image

—p.23 The Weird (14) by Mark Fisher
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