[mod.L., f. Gr. λόγο-ς + μανία madness.] A form of insanity in which there is a great loquacity (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
1747. Hist. Patriotism, 54. The Diseases of this noble Body of Patriots vary…. The first and general Disorder … is call’d by the learned Greeks, Logomania, in English it may be term’d, an intemperate Desire of Speaking.
1906. J. Mackaye, Econ. Happiness, iv. 160. Logomania … is a consequence of the necessity which men are under of thinking in symbols, and arises from confusion in the use of those symbols.
