LOGOMANIAC NOUN a person who is insanely interested in words ...1870 ETYMOLOGY from Greek λόγος (word) + maniac FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1870 - see EXAMPLE BELOW EXAMPLE "...We have outgrown the customs of those logo-maniacs, or word-worshippers, whom old Ralph Cudworth, in his True Intellectual System of the Universe, p. 67, seems to have had in view, when he affirms, "that they could not make a Rational Discourse of anything, though never so small, but they must stuff it with their Quiddities, Entities, Essences, Haecceities, and the like..." From: Shakespeare and the Emblem Writers: An Exposition of Their Similarities of Thought and Expression: preceded by a view of emblem-literature down to A.D. 1616 - Henry Green
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