Tangentiality

Definition

A disturbance in the associative thought process typically manifest in speech in which the person tends to digress readily from the topic under discussion to other topics through associations without ever returning to the original topic.

Also indexed as

Nearby in Symptoms or signs of thought disorder

• MB25.00Circumstantiality
• MB25.02Disorganised thinking
• MB25.03Incoherence
• 4B4YOther specified diseases of the immune system
• 4B4ZDiseases of the immune system, unspecified