xenoglossy

• Weiss: Dr. Ian Stevenson [chairman emeritus of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Virginia; see Omni Interview, January 1988] has more than 2,000 cases of children from all over the world, many of whom exhibit xenoglossy, the ability to speak a foreign language to which one has had no exposure. —  Omni: April 1994
• In other words, the subject very quickly learns to express itself by means of a true "xenoglossy," i.e. by means of a language that may be clear to other people although it probably is not understood by the animal or medium making use of it. —  Lola or, The Thought and Speech of Animals
• Of course, even after the development of this "xenoglossy," it is difficult either to admit or to refuse to admit some remainder of self-conscious co-operation by the animal in its "answers." —  Lola or, The Thought and Speech of Animals

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