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agrammaphasia

agrammaphasia noun: a speech disorder in which a person is unable to produce a grammatical or intelligible sentence.

Noun

agrammaphasia (uncountable)

  1. (rare) A speech disorder in which a person is unable to produce a grammatical or intelligible sentence.
    • On the other hand, when answering she always tended to limit her answer to the linguistically essential minimum, and sometimes she ended in some slight agrammaphasia […]1983, Glossogenetics: the origin and evolution of language, page 240
    • Mixed aphasia: characterized by such disorders as agrammaphasia, syntactical aphasia, word-salad speech, groping speech, repetitious speech or paraphasia.2013, Sara M Stinchfield, Speech Disorders, →ISBN

Origin of agrammaphasia

The first element is related to agrammatical; the second is + -phasia.

Questions about agrammaphasia

What does agrammaphasia mean?
Agrammaphasia means a speech disorder in which a person is unable to produce a grammatical or intelligible sentence.
What part of speech is agrammaphasia?
Agrammaphasia is a noun.

Words near agrammaphasia in the dictionary

  1. agraffs
  2. agrah
  3. agraharam
  4. Agraj
  5. Agraja
  6. agrammaphasia
  7. agrammatic
  8. agrammatic aphasia
  9. agrammatical
  10. agrammaticism
  11. agrammaticisms

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