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Definition of Logomania
1. Noun. Pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking.
Definition of Logomania
1. Noun. Great enthusiasm for words. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Logomania
Literary usage of Logomania
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Economy of Happiness by James MacKaye (1906)
"logomania is the most universal of all forms of mania, arising as it does from
a universal necessity of thought. As already shown, the questions of the ..."
2. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1906)
"... and much of logomania. The mind which once matters it is emancipated."
The second factor of happiness is the adaptation of a man to his environment. ..."
3. Mental pathology and therapeutics by Wilhelm Griesinger (1882)
"... without communicating anything i- to a listener, the continuous reflex action
in the organs of speech proceeds as incessant prattle (logomania proper, ..."
4. Poems and Plays by Percy MacKaye (1908)
"The whole pack of 'em have been bitten with mad words and got the logomania.
They should be muzzled. [Mater comes behind the chair and, while he continues ..."
5. A Dictionary of Medicine: Including General Pathology, General Therapeutics by Richard Quain, Frederick Thomas Roberts, John Mitchell Bruce, Samuel Treat Armstrong (1894)
"... principally sodium, calcium, and magnesium chlorides and calcium sulphate, in
Fountain Co., Ind. logomania. — Monomania characterized by loquacity. ..."
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