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Answer for the clue "Pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking ", 9 letters:
logorrhea

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Word definitions for logorrhea in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1878, from logos + ending from diarrhea .

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In psychology , logorrhea or logorrhoea (from Ancient Greek λόγος logos "word" and ῥέω rheo "to flow") is a communication disorder , expressed by excessive wordiness with minor or sometimes incoherent talkativeness. Logorrhea is sometimes classified as ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking [syn: logomania ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context psychology English) An excessive and often uncontrollable flow of words. 2 (context humorous English) Excessive talkativeness.

Usage examples of logorrhea.

The second advantage of this logorrhea is that, thanks to its peremptory character, it is quite naturally regarded as the very essence of the writer.

After a while she was talking in the monotonous logorrhea of emotional release.