word salad
Noun

word salad (uncountable)

  1. (psychiatry) A nonsensical assemblage of words, typical of schizophrenia, Wernicke's aphasia, and some other mental disorders.
    • 2018, Bob Bertolino, PhD, Effective Counseling and Psychotherapy: An Evidence-Based Approach, Springer Publishing Company (ISBN 9780826141132), page 120 ↗:
      All of his other verbal offerings were continuous word-salad—a mixture of made-up sounds, syllables, words, and incomplete phrases.
  2. Meaningless text generated by a computer.
    • 2003, Bjørnar Tessem, Eighth Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence: SCAI'03, IOS Press (ISBN 9781586033903), page 107 ↗:
      Results will be shown for recognition, prediction, and separation of regular input from word salad (random sequences of words).
Translations
  • Russian: слове́сная окро́шка



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