Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

agrammaphasia

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: agrammapha-sia
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A speech disorder in which a person is unable to produce a grammatical or intelligible sentence.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"On the other hand, when answering she always tended to limit her answer to the linguistically essential minimum, and sometimes she ended in some slight agrammaphasia […]"
"Mixed aphasia: characterized by such disorders as agrammaphasia, syntactical aphasia, word-salad speech, groping speech, repetitious speech or paraphasia."
"Broca's aphasia involves a deficit with regard to combining phonemes (word simplification associated with phonetic disintegration) and combining words (decrease in volume of voice, stereotypy, agrammaphasia)."

Etymology

The first element is related to agrammatical; the second is + -phasia.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: phasia

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does agrammaphasia mean?: A speech disorder in which a person is unable to produce a grammatical or intelligible sentence.
Where does agrammaphasia come from?: The first element is related to agrammatical; the second is + -phasia.

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