paraphasia

English

Etymology

From para- +‎ -phasia.

Pronunciation

Noun

paraphasia (countable and uncountable, plural paraphasias)

  1. (pathology) A symptom of aphasia in which the sufferer substitutes a spoken word different from the one intended.

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