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When needs he must, yet faintly then he praises, Somewhat the deed, much more the means he raises: So marreth what he makes, and praising most, dispraises. — "The Purple Island" by Phineas Fletcher [6] The inversion "praising with faint damns" is more modern, [7] though it goes as far back as 1888. [8]
Other related symptoms include the use of neologisms (new words without clear derivation, e.g. hipidomateous for hippopotamus), words that bear no apparent meaning, and, in some extreme cases, the creation of new words and morphosyntactic constructions. From the "stream of unchecked nonsense often under pressure and the lack of self-correction ...
Tangential speech or tangentiality is a communication disorder in which the train of thought of the speaker wanders and shows a lack of focus, never returning to the initial topic of the conversation. [1]
A disfluence or nonfluence is a non-pathological hesitance when speaking, the use of fillers (“like” or “uh”), or the repetition of a word or phrase. This needs to be distinguished from a fluency disorder like stuttering with an interruption of fluency of speech, accompanied by "excessive tension, speaking avoidance, struggle behaviors, and secondary mannerism".
Words are just symbols, the meanings of which are constantly subject to change. It is the concept behind the symbols which have the ability to be synonymous. So the most precise definition of "synonym" is, IMO: "a word with at least one meaning the same or very similar to at least one meaning of a different word."
Onomasticon, though it's more that thesaurus falls within its definition than an actual synonym. Definition: a collection or listing of names or words in a specialized field 99.30.12.54 ( talk ) 13:56, 10 December 2013 (UTC) [ reply ]
An illustration of a weasel using "weasel words". In this case, "some people" are a vague and undefined authority. In rhetoric, a weasel word, or anonymous authority, is a word or phrase aimed at creating an impression that something specific and meaningful has been said, when in fact only a vague, ambiguous, or irrelevant claim has been communicated.
The word "psychobabble" may refer contemptuously to pretentious psychological gibberish. Automated talk-therapy offered by various ELIZA computer programs produce notable examples of conversational patterns that are psychobabble, even though they may not be loaded with jargon. ELIZA programs parody clinical conversations in which a therapist ...