The act of repeating the same words or ideas over and over in a tiresome, unnecessary way.
From Ancient Greek battologia, combining battos (a stammering or repetitive speech impediment) and -logia (study or discourse of). The term entered English in the 17th century through rhetorical texts.
Battology is essentially the linguistic version of a broken record—but the Greek gave it a name because even ancient audiences had to sit through boring, repetitive speakers, proving human impatience with tedium is timeless.
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