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word salad

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  • noun A nonsensical assemblage of words, typical of schizophrenia, Wernicke's aphasia, and some other mental disorders.
  • noun Meaningless text generated by a computer.

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  • noun jumble of incoherent speech as sometimes heard in schizophrenia

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  1. incoherence
  2. incoherency
  3. unintelligibility

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  • kayballard commented on the word word salad

    I was introduced to this phrase by @joshacagan as a description of Sarah Palin speak

    December 27, 2008

  • jfk commented on the word word salad

    When used in a technical sense it is also a symptom of certain psychiatric and neurological disorders.

    May 21, 2009