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  2. List of manias - Wikipedia

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    Egomania – obsession with oneself and self-worship (ego- (Latin) meaning I, first person and singular pronoun) Ergomania, ergasiomania – work (ergasio- or ergo- (Greek) meaning work) Erotomania – sexual desire or sexual attraction from strangers (delusional conviction) (eroto- (Greek) meaning sexual passion or desire)

  3. Convergent thinking - Wikipedia

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    Convergent thinking is a term coined by Joy Paul Guilford as the opposite of divergent thinking. It generally means the ability to give the "correct" answer to questions that do not require novel ideas, for instance on standardized multiple-choice tests for intelligence.

  4. Fluency - Wikipedia

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    Fluency is a speech language pathology term which means the smoothness or flow with which sounds, syllables, words and phrases are joined when speaking quickly. [2] The term fluency disorder has been used as a collective term for cluttering and stuttering. Both disorders have breaks in the fluidity of speech, and both have the fluency breakdown ...

  5. List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia

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    The tendency for some people, especially those with depression, to overestimate the likelihood of negative things happening to them. (compare optimism bias) Present bias: The tendency of people to give stronger weight to payoffs that are closer to the present time when considering trade-offs between two future moments. [110] Plant blindness

  6. Passive speaker (language) - Wikipedia

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    Passive fluency is often brought about by being raised in one language (which becomes the person's passive language) and being schooled in another language (which becomes the person's native language). [2] [3] Such speakers are especially common in language shift communities where speakers of a declining language do not acquire active competence.

  7. Paraphasia - Wikipedia

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    Paraphasic errors are most common in patients with fluent forms of aphasia, and come in three forms: phonemic or literal, neologistic, and verbal. [1] Paraphasias can affect metrical information, segmental information, number of syllables, or both. Some paraphasias preserve the meter without segmentation, and some do the opposite.

  8. Today's Wordle Hint, Answer for #1274 on Saturday, December ...

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    Today's Wordle Answer for #1274 on Saturday, December 14, 2024. Today's Wordle answer on Saturday, December 14, 2024, is DROOL. How'd you do? Next: Catch up on other Wordle answers from this week.

  9. Unpaired word - Wikipedia

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    An unpaired word is one that, according to the usual rules of the language, would appear to have a related word but does not. [1] Such words usually have a prefix or suffix that would imply that there is an antonym, with the prefix or suffix being absent or opposite.