tan·gen·tial

(tăn-jĕn′shəl) also tan·gen·tal (-jĕn′tl)

adj.

1. Of, relating to, or moving along or in the direction of a tangent.

2. Merely touching or slightly connected.

3. Only superficially relevant; divergent: a tangential remark.

tan·gen′ti·al′i·ty (-shē-ăl′ĭ-tē) n.

tan·gen′tial·ly adv.

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Translations

tangentiality

n (psych) tangencialidad f

References in periodicals archive

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Consequently, there is little success in simulating the speech abnormalities found in disorganized schizophrenic thought: derailment, loose associations, tangentiality, neologisms, circumstantiality, alogia, and incoherence (APA, 2013; Maxmen & Ward, 1995; Resnick & Knoll, 2008).

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