Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In pathology, aphasia due to ideational defect.
Wiktionary
- n. A general lack of additional, unprompted content in normal speech, a common symptom of schizophrenia.
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek ἀλογία (alogia, "absurdity; confusion; irrationality; speechlessness"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Ben – forgot to take his meds again … he seems to suffer from severe mental disorders … as in alexia Loss of a previously intact ability to grasp the meaning of written or printed words and sentences. alogia An impoverishment in thinking that is inferred from observing speech and language behavior.”
“Negative symptoms are the absence of something that is normall present, such as flattened or masked affect, alogia, avolition, anhedonia, and attentional impairment.”
“A characteristic of many psychiatric disorders is the person’s inability to assume the abstract attitude or to shift readily from the concrete to the abstract and back again as demanded by circumstances. alexia Loss of a previously intact ability to grasp the meaning of written or printed words and sentences. alogia An impoverishment in thinking that is inferred from observing speech and language behavior.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘alogia’.
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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You Don't Say
Language disorders, disabilities, and unusual demonstrations.
aphasia, aphonia, dysarthria, glossolalia, paraphasia, alexia, polymicrogyria, logorrhea, stutter, spoonerism, agraphia, malapropism and 54 more...
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sick
"Sick" is probably not the right word, but this is where I put diseases, problems and abnormalities until I find a better way to sort them.
atavism, pareidolia, apophenia, echolalia, glossolalia, alogia, dysthymia, euthymia, synesthesia, Stendhal syndrome, cryptomnesia, analgesia and 356 more...
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linguistics
holophrasis, polyglot, interrobang, echolalia, glossolalia, alogia, malapropism, sesquipedalian, hapax legomenon, portmanteau, tautology, epigram and 79 more...
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SocialWorker32's Words
proliferous, loquacious, melancholic, pugnacious, moxie, ginormous, rudimentary, pusillanimous, quagmire, transphobia, voracity, veracity and 27 more...
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psychology
the fields of psychology and psychiatry are rife with fantastic words. these are some of my favorites.
labile, transference, euthymic, dysthymia, affect, alogia, anhedonia, paranoia, glossolalia, echolalia, dyad, comorbidity and 11 more...
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