Logorrhea (psychology)
Communication disorder that causes excessive wordiness and repetitiveness / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the psychological term. For the linguistic and stylistic term, see Verbosity.
In psychology, logorrhea or logorrhoea (from Ancient Greek λόγος logos "word" and ῥέω rheo "to flow") is a communication disorder that causes excessive wordiness and repetitiveness, which can cause incoherency. Logorrhea is sometimes classified as a mental illness, though it is more commonly classified as a symptom of mental illness or brain injury. This ailment is often reported as a symptom of Wernicke's aphasia, where damage to the language processing center of the brain creates difficulty in self-centered speech.