Intriguing Words – 5th May 2008

For this ‘Intriguing words’ I would like to look at manias… in particular “word manias”:

Coprolalomania             the use of foul language

Graphomania                morbid desire for writing

Hellenomania                using cumbersome Greek or Latin terms instead of

                                        readily understandable English words

Klazomania                    compulsory shouting

Lalomania                      abnormal interest in speech

Logamania                     overtalkativeness

(or logomonomania)

Metromania                  mania for writing verses

Onomatomania             mental derangement with regard to words

                                        (inability to recall a certain word,

                                        attaching special significance to a word,

                                        and so forth)

Scribblemania               mania for scribbling

(or scribbleomania)

Scribomania                  writing a long succession of unconnected words

Verbomania                  morbid talkativeness

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