logorrhea | Definition of logorrhea

Synonyms and Antonyms of logorrhea

the use of too many words to express an idea

the article suffers from the logorrhea that infects so much academic writing

Synonyms of logorrhea

circumlocution, diffuseness, diffusion, garrulity, garrulousness, long-windedness, periphrasis, prolixity, redundancy, verbalism, verbiage, verboseness, verbosity, windiness, wordage, wordiness

Words Related to logorrhea

circuitousness, circularity, digressiveness

pleonasm, tautology

reiteration, repetition, repetitiousness, repetitiveness

embellishment, embroidering, exaggeration, hyperbole, overstatement

Near Antonyms of logorrhea

brevity, briefness, compactness, conciseness, concision, crispness, pithiness, succinctness, terseness