logorrhea

These "Symbolists" are characterised by unbounded vanity and self-sufficiency; they are highly emotional; their thinking is hazy and disconnected. They suffer from "Logorrhea" or "sickly talkativeness," and are unable to perform any work which requires concentration and persistency.

The writer should endeavor to have his observations first of all, exact, then apposite, and finally as brief as the nature of the case will admit. … Logorrhea and irrelevancy are the bane of a society.

But, then, these persons have not only a copia verborum as to knowledge, but a volubility sometimes amounting to a logorrhœa in expressing what they know—although that may not be much.