| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| glossolalia |
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| SYLLABICATION: | glos·so·la·li·a |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  glô s -l  l -, gl s- |
| NOUN: | 1. Fabricated and nonmeaningful speech, especially such speech associated with a trance state or certain schizophrenic syndromes. 2. See gift of tongues. | | ETYMOLOGY: | New Latin : Greek gl ssa, tongue + Greek lalein, to babble.
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