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Glossolalia
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Meaning
Noun
●
In Languages, Religion & Talking:
Speaking
a language
one does not know, or
speaking
elaborate
but
apparently
meaningless
speech
, while in a
trance-like
state (or,
supposedly
,
under the influence
of a
deity
or
spirits
);
speaking
in tongues.
●
Synonym of
xenoglossy
(“knowledge of
a language
one has never learned”).
Sourced from
Wiktionary
Origin
glossolalia
English
-lalia
English
λαλιά
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
glosso-
English
Sourced from
Etym
Synonyms
Glossolaly
Xenoglossy
Speaking In Tongues
Speaking With Tongues
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