(linguistics) emphasis placed on the topic or focus of a sentence by preposing it to the beginning of the sentence; placing the topic…
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Echolalia
(psychiatry) mechanical and meaningless repetition of the words of another person (as in schizophrenia)
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the speech act of making something evident
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Linguistics, Pragmatics.the speech act of making something evident
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Linguistics, Pragmatics.the speech act of making something evident
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Linguistics, Pragmatics.(law) compulsory pretrial disclosure of documents relevant to a case; enables one side in a litigation to elicit information from the…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Linguistics, Pragmatics.behavior that makes your feelings public; "a display of emotion"
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Linguistics, Pragmatics.the act of disclosing something that was secret or private
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Linguistics, Pragmatics.the act of disclosing something that was secret or private
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Linguistics, Pragmatics.the disclosure of something secret; "they feared exposure of their campaign plans"
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Linguistics, Pragmatics.an unintentional disclosure
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Linguistics, Pragmatics.to furnish incriminating evidence to an officer of the law (usually in return for favors)
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Linguistics, Pragmatics.unauthorized (especially deliberate) disclosure of confidential information
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Linguistics, Pragmatics.unauthorized (especially deliberate) disclosure of confidential information
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Linguistics, Pragmatics.to furnish incriminating evidence to an officer of the law (usually in return for favors)
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Linguistics, Pragmatics.disclosing information or giving evidence about another
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Linguistics, Pragmatics.disclosing information or giving evidence about another
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Linguistics, Pragmatics.disclosing information or giving evidence about another
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Linguistics, Pragmatics.the exposure of an impostor or a fraud; "he published an expose of the graft and corruption in city government"
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schizophrenia of abrupt onset and relatively short duration (a few weeks or months)
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, mechanical, meaningless, repetition, words.The repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; as i…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, mechanical, meaningless, repetition, words.A nonsense verse; a rigmarole, with apparent meaning, which on further attention proves to be meaningless.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, mechanical, meaningless, repetition, words.A repetition of a word or of words at the beginning of two or more successive clauses.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, mechanical, meaningless, repetition, words.schizophrenia characterized by mild symptoms or by some preexisting tendency to schizophrenia
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, mechanical, meaningless, repetition, words.a form of schizophrenia characterized by a tendency to remain in a fixed stuporous state for long periods; the catatonia may give way…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, mechanical, meaningless, repetition, words.a form of schizophrenia characterized by a tendency to remain in a fixed stuporous state for long periods; the catatonia may give way…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, mechanical, meaningless, repetition, words.a form of schizophrenia characterized by a tendency to remain in a fixed stuporous state for long periods; the catatonia may give way…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, mechanical, meaningless, repetition, words.a form of schizophrenia characterized by severe disintegration of personality including erratic speech and childish mannerisms and biz…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, mechanical, meaningless, repetition, words.a form of schizophrenia characterized by severe disintegration of personality including erratic speech and childish mannerisms and biz…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, mechanical, meaningless, repetition, words.aphasia characterized by fluent but meaningless speech and severe impairment of the ability understand spoken or written words
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, mechanical, meaningless, repetition, words.Language that is meaningless or hard to understand
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, mechanical, meaningless, repetition, words.a form of schizophrenia characterized by severe disintegration of personality including erratic speech and childish mannerisms and biz…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, mechanical, meaningless, repetition, words.
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