Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, the use of one word for another, or of one syllable for another: a phase of aphasia.
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- noun medicine A symptom of
aphasia in which the sufferer substitutes a spoken word different from the one intended.
Etymologies
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Examples
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_ -- In this kind of paraphasia in adults the cause is a lack of attention; therefore purely central concentration is wanting, or one fails to "collect himself"; there is distraction, hence the unintentional, frequently unconscious, confounding of words similar in sound or connected merely by remote, often dim, reminiscences.
The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX. William T. Preyer 1869
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Tom Whitmore @779 -- That sounds like an example of verbal paraphasia scroll down.
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Turns out there's a name for this -- a literal paraphasia -- and it's just one kind of "senior moment," an unscientific term for a variety of mental glitches.
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Turns out there's a name for this -- a literal paraphasia -- and it's just one kind of "senior moment," an unscientific term for a variety of mental glitches.
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It looks like a case of iatrogenic paraphasia, perhaps induced by an accidental lesion to the temporal lobe?
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It looks like a case of iatrogenic paraphasia, perhaps induced by an accidental lesion to the temporal lobe?
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In contrast, an out-of-class semantic or verbal paraphasia is so far removed from the actual thing that the utterance seems idiosyncratic and the meaning is obscure: private word usage.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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An in-class semantic (referring to the meaning of words) or verbal paraphasia is a word usage that, although imprecise, remains understandable because the approximate word or phrase relates to some characteristic of the precise word (e.g., its basic function or class).
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
whichbe commented on the word paraphasia
Disorder in which one word substituted for another. (from Phrontistery)
May 25, 2008
seanahan commented on the word paraphasia
Not to be confused with paraphrasia.
May 27, 2008
bilby commented on the word paraphasia
I need a substitute word for paraphasia. I need it now.
May 27, 2008