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schizophasia

noun/ˌskɪtsəˈfeɪziə/

C2CEFR level
98/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

Severely disorganised speech in which words and phrases are strung together incomprehensibly.

His answers deteriorated into schizophasia, grammatically formed yet devoid of meaning.

Similar: word salad

Topic: Neurology in Medical English

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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