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anendophasia

anendophasia noun: the absence of the experience of inner speech.

Noun

anendophasia (uncountable)

  1. The absence of the experience of inner speech.
    • What methods are suitable for investigating the question of whether some people do not use IS [inner speech] at all (sometimes termed anauralia or anendophasia)?2023 December, Charles Fernyhough, Anna M. Borghi, “Inner speech as language process and cognitive tool”, in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, →DOI, page 1190
    • Anendophasia as we define it pertains to the subjective experience of inner speech.2024, Johanne S. K. Nedergaard and Gary Lupyan, “Not Everybody Has an Inner Voice: Behavioral Consequences of Anendophasia”, in Psychological Science, volume 35, number 7, →DOI

Origin of anendophasia

From an- + endophasia.

Questions about anendophasia

What does anendophasia mean?
Anendophasia means the absence of the experience of inner speech.
What part of speech is anendophasia?
Anendophasia is a noun.

Words near anendophasia in the dictionary

  1. anencephalies
  2. anencephalous
  3. anencephalus
  4. anencephaly
  5. anend
  6. anendophasia
  7. Anenii Noi
  8. anenome
  9. anenst
  10. anent
  11. anenterous

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