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word association

word association noun: an activity in which the participant is presented with a word and asked to state the first word they can think of, often used as a game or, in psychoanalysis, a tool for analysing aspects of the unconscious.

Noun

word association (countable and uncountable, plural word associations)

  1. An activity in which the participant is presented with a word and asked to state the first word they can think of, often used as a game or, in psychoanalysis, a tool for analysing aspects of the unconscious.

Forms of word association

pluralword associations

Questions about word association

What does word association mean?
Word association means an activity in which the participant is presented with a word and asked to state the first word they can think of, often used as a game or, in psychoanalysis, a tool for analysing aspects of the unconscious.
What part of speech is word association?
Word association is a noun.
What is the plural of word association?
The plural of word association is word associations.

Words near word association in the dictionary

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  8. word balloon
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  10. word blindness
  11. word box

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