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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A general lack of additional, unprompted content in normal speech, a common symptom of schizophrenia. uncountable

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀλογία (alogía, “absurdity; confusion; irrationality; speechlessness”). By surface analysis, a- + -logia.

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