anendophasia

English

This English term is a hot word. Its inclusion on Wiktionary is provisional.

Etymology

From an- +‎ endophasia.

Noun

anendophasia (uncountable)

1. The absence of the experience of inner speech.
   • 2024, Johanne S. K. Nedergaard and Gary Lupyan, “Not Everybody Has an Inner Voice: Behavioral Consequences of Anendophasia”, in Psychological Science:

     Anendophasia as we define it pertains to the subjective experience of inner speech.

   • 2024, Quan-Hoang Vuong 1 & Minh-Hoang Nguyen, Inner speech vs. anendophasia: Where information, serendipity, and the mental realm meet with nature?:

     It is pretty clear that inner speech and anendophasia may represent the ebb and flow of thinking or information processing within the mind.

   • 2024, Matheus Henrique Ferreiraa, Mirella Gualtieri, Mello de Moraes, Distinguishing the roles of mental imagery and relational reasoning in creativity: a review and methodological proposal:

     Even though originality is essential, creativity is mainly based on self-generated mental experiences and would probably be inexistent in the complete absence of it (i.e. in a state of total aphantasia and anendophasia).