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logorrhoea

noun/ˌlɒɡəˈriːə/

C2CEFR level
92/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

An excessive, often incoherent flow of speech that is difficult to interrupt.

In his manic state his logorrhoea was relentless, the words tumbling out faster than any listener could follow.

Topic: Mental health in Medical English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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