| paragram | A pun. "Puns, which he calls paragrams." (Addison) Origin: Gr. That which one writes beside. See Paragraph. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| paragrammatism | A form of aphasia in which a person has lost the ability to speak correctly, substituting one word for another, and jumbling words and sentences unintelligibly. Synonym: jargon, paragrammatism, paraphrasia, pseudoagrammatism. Origin: para-+ G. Phasis, speech Thematic paraphasia, incoherent speech that wanders from the theme or subject under discussion. (05 Mar 2000) |