anendophasia

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English

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Etymology

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an- +‎ endophasia

Noun

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anendophasia (usually uncountable, plural anendophasias)

  1. The absence of the experience of inner speech.
    • 2024, Johanne S. K. Nedergaard and Gary Lupyan, “Not Everybody Has an Inner Voice: Behavioral Consequences of Anendophasia”, in Psychological Science:
      Anendophasia as we define it pertains to the subjective experience of inner speech.
    • 2024, Quan-Hoang Vuong 1 & Minh-Hoang Nguyen, Inner speech vs. anendophasia: Where information, serendipity, and the mental realm meet with nature?:
      It is pretty clear that inner speech and anendophasia may represent the ebb and flow of thinking or information processing within the mind.
    • 2024, Matheus Henrique Ferreiraa, Mirella Gualtieri, Mello de Moraes, Distinguishing the roles of mental imagery and relational reasoning in creativity: a review and methodological proposal:
      Even though originality is essential, creativity is mainly based on self-generated mental experiences and would probably be inexistent in the complete absence of it (i.e. in a state of total aphantasia and anendophasia).