Pronounced: dal-MAT-ick, noun
Notes: My guess at the meaning was far off the mark
Yesterday’s word
The word battology is “a tiring repetition of words, either spoken or written”
First usage
This word goes back to around 1600
Background / Comments
I’ve definitely met people whose conversation was battology — just a repetition of the same stories without end. I heard one man tell the same store three times within a few minutes. Our word comes from Greek battología, which is báttos (stammerer) combined with -logia.
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