word salad

They may also use different words that do not fit together at all; this is known as 'word salad'.

The result is often a "word salad" or missing text.

Word salad can be generated by a computer program for various purposes.

They walk and talk, even if it's just word salad, a constant stream of words that seem random.

Writing as "Wossy" he said his wife had chosen the word salad.

In the severe form speech becomes incomprehensible and it is known as "word salad".

Below a set percentage rate, the word salad passes for actual dictation.

Word salad' is most often used for a symptom of a neurological or mental disorder.

He is more likely to make eye contact, she said, and less likely to speak in a confusing "word salad."

Word salad: an incomprehensible series of words and phrases.

This fluent, although nonsensical speech, is often referred to as "word salad".

"He could make word salads by the dozen.

Word salad is language with meaningless, scrambled words.

Some combinations of words are nonsensical and constitute what some call "word salad".

There are fine small bowls of marinated wild greens and seaweed that give new meaning to the word salad.

A fluent aphasia can be so severe ("word salad") that no content is discernible.

Gertrude Stein furnished the nearly plotless word salad of a libretto.

He said that in the medical community, it's called "word salad" -- like a tossed salad but with words.

What could happen is the drugs can free up "word salad" -- a mishmash of thoughts and impressions that are brought to the surface.

Graphorrhea, a written version of word salad that is more rarely seen than logorrhea in people with schizophrenia.

Obama is the worst offender in modern politics on this subject, but Romney is also a great producer of word salads.

The word salad literally means "salted", and comes from the ancient Roman practice of salting leaf vegetables.

Even Kennard's voice was only a blur of meaningless syllables, verbal hash, word salad.

Similarly the definition of 'Incoherence' (word salad) is that speech is incoherent.

With logorrhea, which is closer to word salad, it may not even be clear that the speaker had a particular idea or point in the first place.