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In psychiatry and neuroscience, the term neologism is used to describe words that have meaning only to the person who uses them, independent of their common meaning. [ 39 ] [ 40 ] This can be seen in schizophrenia , where a person may replace a word with a nonsensical one of their own invention (e.g., "I got so angry I picked up a dish and ...
Jargon aphasia is a type of fluent aphasia in which an individual's speech is incomprehensible, but appears to make sense to the individual. Persons experiencing this condition will either replace a desired word with another that sounds or looks like the original one, or has some other connection to it, or they will replace it with random sounds.
Neologistic paraphasias, a substitution with a non-English or gibberish word, follow pauses indicating word-finding difficulty. [13] They can affect any part of speech, and the previously mentioned pause can be used to indicate the relative severity of the neologism; less severe neologistic paraphasias can be recognized as a distortion of a real word, and more severe ones cannot.
Neology ("study of new [things]") was the name given to the rationalist theology of Germany or the rationalisation of the Christian religion. [1] It was preceded by slightly less radical Wolffism.
Creode or chreod is a neologistic portmanteau term coined by the English 20th century biologist C. H. Waddington to represent the developmental pathway followed by a cell as it grows to form part of a specialized organ. [1] Combining the Greek roots for "necessary" and "path," the term was inspired by the property of regulation. [2]
Prominent west coast cities, like San Francisco and Portland, have been ravaged by a drug crisis in recent years. Coincidentally, local laws regarding drug possession have been relaxed.
Young workers are ‘cheating’ at work, setting work-life boundaries, and prioritizing their mental health.
The phenomenon whereby others' expectations of a target person affect the target person's performance. Reactance: The urge to do the opposite of what someone wants one to do out of a need to resist a perceived attempt to constrain one's freedom of choice (see also Reverse psychology). Reactive devaluation