(psychology) The erroneous production of unintended words in speech that is a feature in some forms of aphasia.
paraphasia
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(păr'ə-fā'zhə) or par·a·phra·si·a (-frā'zē-ə, -zhə)
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n.
Aphasia in which one loses the power of speaking correctly, substitutes one word for another, and jumbles words and sentences in such a way as to make speech unintelligible. Also called paragrammatism.
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