4/25/06

glossolalia

[New Latin from Greek 'glossa', tongue + Greek 'lalein', to babble]

n.
Profuse and often emotionally charged speech that mimics coherent speech but is usually unintelligible to the listener and that is uttered in some states of religious ecstasy and in some schizophrenic states.

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