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word salads

word salads is the plural of word salad.

Meaning of word salad

Noun

word salad (usually uncountable, plural word salads)

  1. (usually) A nonsensical assemblage of words, typical of schizophrenia, Wernicke's aphasia, and some other mental disorders.
    • All of his other verbal offerings were continuous word-salad—a mixture of made-up sounds, syllables, words, and incomplete phrases.2018, Bob Bertolino, PhD, Effective Counseling and Psychotherapy: An Evidence-Based Approach, Springer Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 120
  2. (usually) Meaningless text generated by a computer.
    • Results will be shown for recognition, prediction, and separation of regular input from word salad (random sequences of words).2003, Bjørnar Tessem, Eighth Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence: SCAI'03, IOS Press, →ISBN, page 107
  3. (usually) An intentionally nonsensical and voluminous statement.
    • Chris Wallace asked @GovAbbott why he didn't complain about migrant abuse when Trump was President and he launched into word salad, with no real answer.2021, Jeremy Newberger, Twitter

Questions about word salads

What is word salads the plural of?
Word salads is the plural of word salad.

Words near word salads in the dictionary

  1. word processes
  2. word processing
  3. word processor
  4. word processors
  5. word salad
  6. word salads
  7. word search
  8. word searches
  9. word separator
  10. word separators
  11. word sketch

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