Derailment (thought disorder)
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In psychiatry, derailment (also loosening of association, asyndesis, asyndetic thinking, knight's move thinking, or entgleisen) refers to a pattern of discourse (in speech or writing) that is a sequence of unrelated or only remotely related ideas.
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See also
- Train of thought
- Non sequitur (logic) and Non sequitur (literary device)
- Nonsense
- SCIgen, a program that generates nonsense research papers by grammatically combining snippets; many of the sentences generated are individually plausible
- Relevance logic
- Tip-of-the-tongue
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