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Logorrheic vs Garrulous - What's the difference?

logorrheic | garrulous |

As adjectives the difference between logorrheic and garrulous

is that logorrheic is of, pertaining to, or exhibiting logorrhea, the excessive flow of words while garrulous is excessively or tiresomely talkative.

logorrheic

English

Alternative forms

* logorrhoeic *

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting logorrhea, the excessive flow of words
    • It was a long, logorrheic tale.
  • * {{quote-book, 1905, , Text-book of Insanity citation
    • , passage=The content of this logorrheic delirium is mainly made up of recent events.}}
  • * {{quote-news, 1936, November 2, , Last Lap, Time citation
    • , passage=In a logorrheic swirl of speeches, talks, statements, challenges and replies Republican Nominee Alf Landon thrust halfway across the continent and all the way back from coast to coast last week
  • * {{quote-news, 2007, February 2, , An Inarticulate Kickoff, Washington Post citation
    • , passage=I'll leave it to Joe Biden to explain (or figure out) why he used "clean" as one of a logorrheic string of adjectives describing his Senate colleague Barack Obama.}}

    Synonyms

    * talkative * See also

    garrulous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Excessively or tiresomely talkative.
  • *
  • * 1984 , "A Modern Whitman," by James Atlas. The Atlantic , Dec 1984.
    • Crammed with gossip, anecdotes, and confessions . . ., his garrulous , untidy narratives read like a good novel.
  • (of something written or performed) Excessively wordy and rambling.

    • Synonyms

    * (excessively or tiresomely talkative) (l), (l), (l), (l) * (excessively wordy and rambling) (l), (l), (l) * See also * See also

    Derived terms

    * (l) * (l)

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