Tangential speech or tangentiality is a communication disorder in which the train of thought of the speaker wanders and shows a lack of focus, never returning...

accurate communication. Circumstantial speech is more direct than tangential speech in which the speaker wanders and drifts and usually never returns...

form. Thought disorders include derailment, pressured speech, poverty of speech, tangentiality, verbigeration, and thought blocking. One of the first...

in swear words. It cited experts who considered this increase in tangential speech and behavioral disinhibition the potential result of advancing age...

like flight of ideas can induce pressured speech, with some degrees of circumstantiality or tangential speech. It is also a direct or indirect symptom...

fixated on the past", and that experts considered this increase in tangential speech and behavioral disinhibition as a possible consequence of advancing...

articulation and ways that humans produce speech. Articulatory phoneticians explain how humans produce speech sounds via the interaction of different physiological...

of the social context of conversations; and verbose, rambling and tangential speech. Right hemisphere brain damage is diagnosed by a medical professional...

consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility and...

own misconduct", and "gave evasive and argumentative answers and tangential speeches that avoided answering the questions". After losing the case, Bridgen...

of speech called tangentiality—is one of several disjointed and occasionally incoherent verbal habits that seem to have increased in Trump's speech in...

Sandman was based on. Their stories occur in the DC Universe, generally tangentially to the mainstream DC stories. The Endless are a family of seven anthropomorphic...

(see image on the right). The arcs are joined at a point in which lines tangential to both joining arcs lie on the same line, thus making the joint smooth...

the inclusion of less relevant information and irrelevant tangential conversational speech patterns in older subjects. In the last few decades, brain...

contacts the roof in a single motion whereas in a flap the tongue moves tangentially to the roof of the mouth, striking it in passing. During a glottalic...

constant. However, tangential speed does not remain constant. If one stands two meters from the axis of rotation, the tangential speed will be double...

communication patterns are of clinical interest: poor prosody, tangential and circumstantial speech, and marked verbosity. Although inflection and intonation...

specifically as thought blocking, fusion, loosening of associations, tangential thinking, derailment of thought, knight's move thinking. Thought may be...

with several medical experts highlighting an increase in rambling, tangential speech and behavioral disinhibition. Trump mentioned "rigged election" and...

Circumlocution – Ambiguous or roundabout figure of speech Circumstantial speech – Seemingly tangential discussion that returns to the point Concision –...

online reputation. The novel is presented as a non-linear narrative with tangential commentary on real-world people and events, as well as the story of Adeline...

Bell, a veteran The Village Voice columnist who knew Wojtowicz, and was tangentially involved in the hostage negotiations, reported that paying for Eden's...

appear in popular culture of the 20th and 21st centuries often have only a tangential relation to the stories as told in ancient Greek and Latin literature...

between employees within and outside a company Circumstantial speech – Seemingly tangential discussion that returns to the point Evidence-based education –...

switching to topics that are unrelated which is called tangential thinking, incomprehensible speech which is called incoherence and referred to as a word...

contact with reality, out of touch." He opines that the term has only a tangential connection to the political left or the Left Coast, political slang for...

not include the full text of the latter two volumes, but removes the tangential travel sections which take place outside Scotland. "The Ring of Bright...

the late Aretha Franklin. Most of the speech said the early origins of Madonna's career and was only tangentially Franklin-related, which made critics...

energy by invoking entities or objects of power existing in dimensions tangential to Earth's through the recitation of spells. Presumably, she is capable...

version of "Host" in Consider the Lobster featured arrows connecting tangential ideas on the page, mimicking the reading experience that online readers...