Meanings
- rareuncountablemedicineA speech disorder in which a person is unable to produce a grammatical or intelligible sentence.
Mixed aphasia: characterized by such disorders as agrammaphasia, syntactical aphasia, word-salad speech, groping speech, repetitious speech or paraphasia.
2013, Sara M Stinchfield, Speech Disorders, →ISBN2 more examples
On the other hand, when answering she always tended to limit her answer to the linguistically essential minimum, and sometimes she ended in some slight agrammaphasia […]
1983, Glossogenetics: the origin and evolution of language, page 240Broca's aphasia involves a deficit with regard to combining phonemes (word simplification associated with phonetic disintegration) and combining words (decrease in volume of voice, stereotypy, agrammaphasia).
2014, Christiane Fäcke, Manual of Language Acquisition, →ISBN, page 145
Origin
The first element is related to agrammatical; the second is + -phasia.
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agrammaphasia. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/agrammaphasia
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