Definition of Alogia

1. Noun. A general lack of additional, unprompted content in normal speech, a common symptom of schizophrenia. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Alogia

1. inability to speak [n -S]

Medical Definition of Alogia

1. Inability to speak due to mental deficiency or an episode of dementia. Synonym: aphasia. Origin: G. A-priv. + logos, speech (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Alogia

alodyne
alodynes
aloe
aloe-emodin
aloe family
aloed
aloelike
aloes
aloes wood
aloesin
aloetic
aloetick
aloetics
aloetin
aloft
alogia (current term)
alogian
alogias
alogical
alogically
alogy
aloha
aloha shirt
aloha shirts
alohas
aloin
aloins
aloisiite
alomancy
alone

Literary usage of Alogia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1874)
"The first division comprehends alogia (Broca and Proust), and alalia by hebetude (Jaccoud). The second includes verbal amnesia and aphasia (Broca and ..."

2. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"Alogie ; Fr. alogie; Ital. alogia. Inability to speak due to intellectual defect ; ie a disorder in the formation of thought whereby speech is not acquired ..."

3. I diarii di Marino Sanuto: (MCCCCXCVI-MDXXXIII) dall' autografo Marciano by Marino Sanuto (1897)
"... Lodovico da Cremona guarda la piaza con fanti 200, quali alogia in Sanio Benedeto el allri lochi li propinqui a la piaza. ..."

4. The Chicago Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease (1874)
"... great classes: the one with ataxic, and the other with paralytic, symptoms. 3. Alteration of the external organs. The first division comprehends alogia ..."

5. Contributions to Latin Lexicography by Henry Nettleship (1889)
"Epist. 36. 19 it means 3. an intemperate meal, opp. to d\uyla. Hence the gloss 'alogia' convivium, Gloss. ..."

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