Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A nonsensical assemblage of words, typical of schizophrenia, Wernicke's aphasia, and some other mental disorders.
- n. Meaningless text generated by a computer.
WordNet 3.0
- n. jumble of incoherent speech as sometimes heard in schizophrenia
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘word salad’.
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word phrases
to have a look how word is used
and the plurala word, a word or two, a couple of words, word-artist, word base, word-based, word-bate, word battle, word-bearer, word-beat, word-blind, word blindness and 299 more...
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SCIE - noun-noun collocations
The collocations below consist of nouns only. Noun-noun collocations are extremely frequent in science (just think of the names of species, chemical compounds or "scientist+invention" type collocat...
discharge lamp, correlation matrix, obidoxime chloride, withdrawal symptom, ipratropium bromide, book lung, zirconium dioxide, octane number, acetyl group, computer accessory, pinto bean, regression equation and 480 more...
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Words about Words
backronym, contranym, haplology, enallage, paronomasia, scripturient, ambigram, idioglossia, dysphemism, tmesis, panvocalic, caconym and 10 more...
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Medical terms or linguistic terms?
That's a terrible ablative case. Get me some morpheme, stet!
stet, stat, morpheme, morphine, ablative case, salmonella, morphology, nephrology, alethic modality, anaphoric clitic, bolus, hyperbole and 54 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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Rita's List of Words
preliminary, rudimentary, stance, conduit, locale, implicit, vicissitude, empirical, repository, apophthegm, apothegm, invariable and 431 more...
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Kay Ballard's Freshly Discovered Word...
This is a list of words and phrases that I find particularly fresh, fun and perhaps useful.
embrace the suck, her god-given nat..., in print again, a couple of small..., put paid, lonliness myth, word salad, digital influence..., snarky message t-..., book smeller, day drain, comfort manifesto and 89 more...
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Words
Just another sorting device.
oneupsmanship, surpassing, oak gall, transformational, carriage return, riddle me this, pilling, logger, steno, horehound drops, reft, gammaglobulin and 109 more...
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Collagency ✂
Comparing images, cut-up, and mixing meaning.
clusterfuck, fungible, juxtaposition, assemblage, cut, paste, arrangement, theme, symbolism, association, amalgam, represtational and 110 more...
Tweets
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jfk When used in a technical sense it is also a symptom of certain psychiatric and neurological disorders. May 21, 2009
kayballard I was introduced to this phrase by @joshacagan as a description of Sarah Palin speak Dec 26, 2008