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  2. Logorrhea (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Verbosity - Wikipedia

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    Logorrhea (psychology) – Communication disorder that causes excessive wordiness and repetitiveness; Obfuscation – Intentionally confusing wording to confuse people apart from an intended audience; Pleonasm – Redundancy in linguistic expression; Purple prose – Prose text that is overwritten in a way that disrupts a narrative flow

  4. List of disability-related terms with negative connotations

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    Derogatory term (referring to a mentally ill person or a person with brain damage and dementia caused by heavy metal poisoning) popularized especially due to the fictional character of the same name [53] Maniac [6] Mental, mentally deficient, mental case or mentally ill [6] [15] [16] [22] Midget [16] Mong, Mongol, Mongoloid, or Mongolism

  5. Expressive language disorder - Wikipedia

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    The condition is a communication disorder in which there are difficulties with verbal and written expression. [1] It is a specific language impairment characterized by an ability to use expressive spoken language that is markedly below the appropriate level for the mental age, but with a language comprehension that is within normal limits. [2]

  6. Kyle Chayka - Wikipedia

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    Chayka grew up in New Milford, Connecticut, graduating from New Milford High School in 2006. [2] [3] As a teenager, he published a blog entitled "Verbal Diarrhea" and played the role-playing game Ragnarok Online.

  7. Speech disfluency - Wikipedia

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    A disfluence or nonfluence is a non-pathological hesitance when speaking, the use of fillers (“like” or “uh”), or the repetition of a word or phrase. This needs to be distinguished from a fluency disorder like stuttering with an interruption of fluency of speech, accompanied by "excessive tension, speaking avoidance, struggle behaviors, and secondary mannerism".

  8. Coprolalia - Wikipedia

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    Non-verbal phonic tics are referred to as "signing phonic tics" in deaf individuals. Coprolalia in signing individuals is characterized by uncontrollable fingerspelling of obscene and inappropriate words and phrases, the production of intercourse related signs, flicking middle fingers, or compulsive repetition of signs. [ 35 ]

  9. Diarrhea - Wikipedia

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    There are many causes of infectious diarrhea, which include viruses, bacteria and parasites. [29] Infectious diarrhea is frequently referred to as gastroenteritis. [30] Norovirus is the most common cause of viral diarrhea in adults, [31] but rotavirus is the most common cause in children under five years old. [32]