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PRONUNCIATION OF TANGENTIALITY

tangentiality  [tænˌdʒɛnʃɪˈælɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TANGENTIALITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tangentiality is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TANGENTIALITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Tangentiality

Tangentiality as a medical symptom is a physical symptom observed in speech that tends to occur in situations where a person is experiencing high anxiety, as a manifestation of the psychosis known as schizophrenia, in dementia or in states of delirium.

Definition of tangentiality in the English dictionary

The definition of tangentiality in the dictionary is a mental disturbance whereby a person tends to move irrelevantly or digressively from one topic to the other. Other definition of tangentiality is the quality or state of being a tangent or a geometric line, curve, plane, or curved surface that touches another curve or surface at one point but does not intersect it.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TANGENTIALITY


bestiality
ˌbɛstɪˈælɪtɪ
collegiality
kəˌliːdʒɪˈælɪtɪ
confidentiality
ˌkɒnfɪdenʃɪˈælɪtɪ
congeniality
kənˌdʒiːnɪˈælɪtɪ
conviviality
kənvɪvɪˈælɪtɪ
essentiality
ɪˌsenʃɪˈælɪtɪ
ideality
ˌaɪdɪˈælɪtɪ
immateriality
ˌɪməˌtɪərɪˈælɪtɪ
impartiality
ˌɪmpɑːʃɪˈælɪtɪ
joviality
ˌdʒəʊvɪˈælɪtɪ
materiality
məˌtɪərɪˈælɪtɪ
partiality
ˌpɑːʃɪˈælɪtɪ
potentiality
pəˌtɛnʃɪˈælɪtɪ
reality
rɪˈælɪtɪ
spatiality
ˌspeɪʃɪˈælɪtɪ
speciality
ˌspɛʃɪˈælɪtɪ
substantiality
səbˌstænʃɪˈælɪtɪ
territoriality
ˌtɛrɪˌtɔːrɪˈælɪtɪ
triviality
ˌtrɪvɪˈælɪtɪ
unreality
ˌʌnrɪˈælɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TANGENTIALITY

tangelo
tangence
tangency
tangent
tangent galvanometer
tangental
tangentally
tangential
tangential point
tangentially
tangerine
tanghin
tanghinin
tangi
tangibility
tangible
tangible assets
tangibleness
tangibly

WORDS THAT END LIKE TANGENTIALITY

ability
air quality
augmented reality
equality
functionality
homosexuality
hospitality
in reality
inequality
locality
low-quality
morality
mortality
municipality
nationality
originality
personality
quality
sexuality
spirituality
vitality

Synonyms and antonyms of tangentiality in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «tangentiality» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TANGENTIALITY

Find out the translation of tangentiality to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of tangentiality from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tangentiality» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

tangentiality
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tangencialidad
570 millions of speakers

English

tangentiality
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

tangentiality
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

tangentiality
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

tangentiality
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tangentiality
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

tangentiality
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

tangentielle
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tangentiality
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Tangentialität
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

脱線思考
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

tangentiality
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tangentiality
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tangentiality
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

tangentiality
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्पर्शिकता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

teğetsellik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tangenzialità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

tangentiality
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

tangentiality
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

tangentiality
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

tangentiality
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

tangentiality
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tangentiality
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tangentiality
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tangentiality

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TANGENTIALITY»

The term «tangentiality» is used very little and occupies the 181.551 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of tangentiality
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TANGENTIALITY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «tangentiality» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «tangentiality» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about tangentiality

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TANGENTIALITY»

Discover the use of tangentiality in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tangentiality and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Medical Basis of Psychiatry
4.2.3. Tangentiality Tangentiality involves replying to a question in an oblique, tangential, or even irrelevant manner. The reply maybe related to the question in some distant way. Or the reply may be unrelated and seem totally irrelevant.
S. Hossein Fatemi, Norman Sartorius, Paula J. Clayton, 2008
2
The Psychiatric Mental Status Examination
DISRUPTIONS OF CONNECTEDNESS Circumstantiality and tangentiality are relatively mild forms of thought disorder; worse disruptions in increasing order of severity are flight of ideas, loose associations, word salad, and incoherence.
Paula T. Trzepacz, Robert W. Baker, 1993
3
Traumatic Brain Injury: Methods for Clinical and Forensic ...
Tangentiality requires careful listening on the part of the examiner to detect. Initially, conversation with tangential patients seems to be going well. However, the interviewer may suddenly realize that the topic has taken a path different than the ...
Robert P. Granacher, Jr., 2003
4
Seminars in General Adult Psychiatry
1 There are phenomena such as tangentiality, derailment, perseveration and distractibility, which appear to reflect instability of goal in thinking. This class of disorders is most prominent during acute exacerbations of the illness. Case example ...
George Stein, Greg Wilkinson, 2007
5
Comprehensive Psychiatry Review
... facing significant situation or memory Chorea D Random and involuntary quick , dance-like, purposeless movements Circumstantiality and tangentiality D Both are thought process disorders D Both present with relatively sequential speech, ...
William Weiqi Wang, 2009
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Telicity, Change, and State: A Cross-Categorial View of ...
The relevant notion of tangentiality is defined in (2.16c) as covering external tangentiality as in (2.16a), where one path takes up right where some other unrelated path leaves off, and internal tangentiality as in (2.16b), where one path is a ...
Violeta Demonte, Louise McNally, 2012
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Guide to Assessment Scales in Schizophrenia
Rate tangentiality, circumstantiality, sudden topic shifts, incoherence, derailment, blocking, neologisms, and other speech disorders. Do not rate content of speech. I : Notpresent Zzwwmw Peculiar use of words or rambling but speech is ...
Richard Keefe, 2013
8
The Illuminati Bible:
The Asymptotic Function becomes Logical Function along with the Coaxiological Truth that defines it and in reference to which it can generate both asymptotism through the eternal contradiction and tangentiality due to this self contradiction, ...
Sorin Cerin, 2014
9
MRCPsych Paper 1: 1000 MCQs and EMIs
Tangentiality is a formal thought disorder in which there is tangential association of ideas leading to disruption in the smooth continuity of speech. Knight's move thinking, drivelling, omission, derailment and circumstantiality are other examples  ...
Ashok G. Patel, Raman Sharma, 2014
10
Crash Course Psychiatry
The most common thought formdisordersin maniaarecircumstantiality, tangentiality and flight of ideas. However,signsof thought disordermosttypical for schizophrenia can also be seen inmanic episodes,e.g. loosening of association,  ...
Katie FM Marwick, Steven Birrell, 2013

9 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TANGENTIALITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tangentiality is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Album Review: Sun Kil Moon – Universal Themes
This is easily Sun Kil Moon's most demanding album, with song structures that match the ballsy tangentiality of the lyrics. Every track abruptly switches gears at ... «Consequence of Sound, May 15»
2
'Cymbeline,' Baz Luhrmann's 'Romeo + Juliet,' and Why …
It's instructive to turn to Romeo + Juliet — whose modern tangentiality somehow stoked the film's fiery central relationship — to fully understand why Almereyda's ... «Flavorwire, Mar 15»
3
Russian Circles: MemorialMemorial (2013)
... however, considering Russian Circles' pedigree (former members of Dakota/Dakota and These Arms Are Snakes), it's more likely for tangentiality: the album's ... «Punknews.org, Oct 13»
4
بالفيديو.. ننشر نص مكالمة مرسي خلال هروبه من سجن وادي النطرون …
استخدم الرئيس مرسى فى حواره الأخير مع قناة «الجزيرة» ما يمكن أن يسمى بالتفكير الحوام «tangentiality»، أى الكلام الذى يأخذ المحاور فى جولة مطولة، ليظل يحوم به ويحوم ... «الموجز, Apr 13»
5
Richard Kachkar murder trial: two last witnesses say he did not …
“I didn't note any disorganization of thought, or tangentiality, or any psychotic symptoms,” forensic psychiatrist Dr. Graham Glancy testified Monday. Kachkar, 46 ... «Toronto Star, Mar 13»
6
The War Blu-ray Review
... classic The World at War, Ken Burns' decidedly smaller in scope The War is simply in and of itself an exercise in tangentiality. Where Burns' now familiar style ... «Blu-rayDefinition.com, May 12»
7
Video, approximate duration 63 seconds.*
... still hang onto that powerful, ancient specificity: a practice of knowledge acquirable in immanence, the latent tangentiality of what the mystics called revelation. «E-Flux, Apr 11»
8
Doctrine of Equivalents: Festo Exceptions Narrow
In almost explicit terms, the concurrence indicates that the tangentiality excuse should probably not even exist (Except for the Supreme Court precedent). «Patently-O, Mar 07»
9
Psychiatric presentation of voltage-gated potassium channel …
At times he appeared to show thought disorder with derailment, tangentiality and numerous word approximations. He also began to express odd ideas (e.g. that ... «British Journal of Psychiatry, Aug 06»

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