flight of ideas
C2CEFR level
90/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
A rapid stream of speech with loosely connected ideas jumping from topic to topic, characteristic of mania.
His speech showed flight of ideas, leaping from politics to football to his childhood in a single sentence.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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