a defect of speech in which the normal flow of words is interrupted by inappropriate words and phrases
Word origin
C20: from Greek para-1 + -phasia, from phanai to speak
Examples of 'paraphasia' in a sentence
paraphasia
Verbal paraphasia errors appeared more frequently (9,78) than neologistic (2,22) and literal paraphasias (1,78).
Kuljić-Obradović Dragana, Ocić Gordana G. 2002, 'Clinical patterns of speech-language disorders in thalamic aphasias', Vojnosanitetski Pregledhttp://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0042-8450/2002/0042-84500204369K.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
His language impairment was mixed, with poor speech output, severe phonemic paraphasia and apraxia of speech.
Claudio Luzzatti, Alessandra L Molinari, Maria Ester Zanobio 2015, 'Phonological rehabilitation in acquired aphasia', Frontiers in Psychologyhttp://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/conf.fpsyg.2015.65.00036/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)