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verbal amnesia

verbal amnesia Verbal amnesia is an inability to bring to mind the sound of a word even though the person has the idea clearly in mind.

Verbal amnesia is an inability to bring to mind the sound of a word even though the person has the idea clearly in mind. In this historical account, it is described as the opposite of word-deafness: the idea fails to call up the word sound.