logomaniac

Definition

One who is obsessed with words.

Etymology

From logo- + -maniac.

Example Sentences

• "Willy's speech, like Doc's, is a rolling bricolage of cliche, literary quotation, epigram, advertising slogan and salvage from the past. To some extent, the presence in the book of a drunken logomaniac such as Willy gives Auster's prose a new exuberance."