What are xenoglossia and glossolalia?
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Glossolalia
//ˌɡlɒsəˈleɪliə//
Synonyms for "glossolalia" (29 found)
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Closest matches (6)
Strong matches (9)
Related words (14)
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9 entriesTranslations
31 translations across 19 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- لَثْلَثَة noun (speaking in tongues)
Catalan
1 entries- glossolàlia noun (speaking in tongues)
Czech
1 entries- glosolálie noun (speaking in tongues)
Danish
1 entries- tungetale noun (speaking in tongues)
Dutch
3 entries- glossolalie noun (speaking in tongues)
- tongenspreken noun (speaking in tongues)
- tongentaal noun (speaking in tongues)
Finnish
2 entries- glossolalia noun (speaking in tongues)
- kielilläpuhuminen noun (speaking in tongues)
French
1 entries- glossolalie noun (speaking in tongues)
Galician
1 entries- glosolalia noun (speaking in tongues)
German
4 entries- Glossolalie noun (speaking in tongues)
- Glossolalieren noun (speaking in tongues)
- Glottolalie noun (speaking in tongues)
- Zungenrede noun (speaking in tongues)
Greek
1 entries- γλωσσολαλιά noun (speaking in tongues)
Hungarian
1 entries- nyelveken szólás noun (speaking in tongues)
Icelandic
1 entries- tungutal noun (speaking in tongues)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- glossolali noun (speaking in tongues)
- tungetale noun (speaking in tongues)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- glossolali noun (speaking in tongues)
- tungetale noun (speaking in tongues)
Polish
1 entries- glosolalia noun (speaking in tongues)
Portuguese
1 entries- glossolalia noun (speaking in tongues)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- glosolàlija noun (speaking in tongues)
- глосола̀лија noun (speaking in tongues)
Spanish
1 entries- glosolalia noun (speaking in tongues)
Swedish
3 entries- glossolali noun (speaking in tongues)
- tungomålstalande noun (speaking in tongues)
- tungotal noun (speaking in tongues)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
Religious people may like the article "The Tongue of Angels?: Glossolalia in the Mormon Church."
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The religious may like the article "A Survey of Glossolalia and Related Phenomena in Non-Christian Religions."
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The religious may like the article "Glossolalia and Linguistic Alterity: The Ontology of Ineffable Speech."
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