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​ALLOLALIA - speech disorder featuring randomly spoken words

ANOMIA - a difficulty in finding the right words or the inability to remember names

APHASIA - partial or total loss of the ability to articulate ideas or comprehend spoken or written language, usually due to damage inflicted on the brain by injury or disease.

COLYGRAPHIA - means writers block.

DONTOPEDALOGY - the aptitude for putting one's foot in one's mouth.

DYSGRAPHIA - impairment of the ability to write, usually caused by brain dysfunction or disease.

DYSLALIA - impairment of the ability to speak due to defective speech organs.

DYSLEXIA - a learning disorder distinguished by impaired ability to recognize and comprehend written words.

DYSPROSODY - speech impairment characterized by a loss of control of intonation and rhythm.

EMBOLOLALIA - interpolation of meaningless sounds or words into speech.

HELLENOMANIA - refers to the act of using long Latin and Greek terms instead of readily understandable English words.

LARGILOQUENT - talkative; full of words

LETHOLOGICA - when you can’t think of a word for something

LOGORRHEA - excessive and often incoherent talkativeness or wordiness

MALAPROPISM - misapplication of words without mispronunciation

MOGILALIA - speaking with difficulty.

MOGIGRAPHIA - a rare word meaning ‘writer’s cramp’, the stiffness of the hand of many writers who prefer to compose the old-fashioned way with pen or pencil by hand.

MULTILOQUENCE - talkativeness; use of many words

PALILALIA - disorder characterized by rapid repetition of words

PARAGRAPHIA - writing of different letters and words than intended

PARAMNESIA - abnormality of memory; inability to remember meaning of word

PARAPHASIA - disorder in which one word substituted for another

PLEONASM - use of a superfluity of words, often deliberately, for emphasis. "I've never seen anything more obscene in all my 80 years on this Earth."

PSITTACISM - parrot-like repetition in speech

SCRABBLEMENT - the writing of a rambling character likeii that of a madman.

SEMANTICSATIATION - when you say or read a word so many times it stops making sense

SYNAESTHESIA - brain disorder characterized by a cross-referencing of senses: for example, sounds might be "seen" and colors might be "heard."

SYNALOEPHA - omitting one of two vowels, one of which occurs at the end of one word and the other of which occurs at the beginning of the next word; a type of metaplasm. "Th'other," a shortening of "the other."

SYNCHYSIS
confused arrangement of words in a sentence, either by accident or on purpose; an extreme instance of hyperbaton or anastrophe.

VERBICIDE - the killing of a word or the distortion of its original meaning,

VERBIGERATION - the habit of frequently repeating favorite words or expressions.

VERBOSE - using too many words to convey a thought.

WITZELSUCHT - a mental disorder characterized by the making of poor jokes and puns and the telling of pointless stories and usually caused by lesions on the frontal lobe.
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