Definition of "paraphasia" []

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

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• "_ -- In this kind of paraphasia in adults the cause is a lack of attention; therefore purely central concentration is wanting, or one fails to "collect himself"; there is distraction, hence the unintentional, frequently unconscious, confounding of words similar in sound or connected merely by remote, often dim, reminiscences."
• "Tom Whitmore @779 -- That sounds like an example of verbal paraphasia scroll down."
• "Turns out there's a name for this -- a literal paraphasia -- and it's just one kind of "senior moment," an unscientific term for a variety of mental glitches."