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assonance

assonance In historical psychiatric writing, assonance refers to a pattern of thought in which ideas are linked mainly by similarity of sound between words rather than by meaning.

In historical psychiatric writing, assonance refers to a pattern of thought in which ideas are linked mainly by similarity of sound between words rather than by meaning. One word prompts another that sounds like it, and this can contribute to apparently incoherent speech.

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Drafting source: Tuke, A Dictionary of Psychological Medicine. 1892 original US edition; OCR SHA-256 7ec833f3f4ff2826cb5eba1722a767adae625ac9f49f83035a464dc975564f96. “Tuke, A Dictionary of Psychological Medicine” (dictionaryofpsyc02tuke:chars-210000-222000).
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