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word salad

severely disorganized and virtually incomprehensible speech or writing, marked by severe loosening of associations strongly suggestive of schizophrenia. The person’s associations appear to have little or no logical connection. Also called jargon aphasia. See also neologistic jargon; schizophrenic thinking.

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