Polonious: What do you read my lord?
Hamlet: Words, words, words.
Here are some words about words:
loganamnosis
noun. - An obsession with trying to recall a forgotten word.
logastellus
noun. - "A person whose enthusiasm for words outstrips his knowledge of them" - John McClellan.
logocentrism
noun. 1 - Literary analysis that focuses on words and language to the exclusion of non-linguistic matters such as the author's individuality or historical context.
2 - Excessive attention paid to the meanings of words or distinctions in their usage hence, logocentric.
logopoeia
noun. [1929 Ezra Pound in New York Herald-Tribune 20 Jan. XI. 5/4] - ‘The dance of the intellect among words’, that is to say, it employs words not only for their direct meaning, but it takes count in a special way of habits of usage, of the context we expect to find with the word... It holds the æsthetic content which is peculiarly the domain of verbal manifestation and can not possibly be contained in plastic or in music.
logocracy
noun. - A community or system of government in which words are the ruling powers.
logodaedalus (or logodaedalist)
noun. - One who is cunning in words.
logodaedaly
noun. - Arbitrary, cunning or capricious coinage of words; skill in adorning a speech; ‘verbal legerdemain’.
logolatry
noun. - ‘Worship’ of words; unreasonable regard for words or for verbal truth
logology (or logonomy)
noun. - The science of words.
logogogue
noun. - A person who lays down rules about words; a language dictator.
logolepsy
noun. - An obsession with words.
logolept
noun. - A word maniac; verbivore, logophile.
logomachist
noun. - One given to disputes over or about words (also logomach).
logomachy
noun. A dispute over or about words; controversy marked by verbiage.
logomisia
noun. - Disgust for certain words.
logopandocie
noun. - Readiness to admit words of all kinds.
logophile
noun. - A word lover or word buff
logorrhea
noun. - Excessive and often incoherent talkativeness or wordiness.
logorrheic
adjective. - Characterized by excessive use of words.
