loose association

(looseness, desultory thinking, loosening of association, knight's move thinking, thinking-aside, asyndesis, asyndetic thinking)

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• symptom » formal thought disorder
• psychopathology » thought disorder
• symptom » thought disorder » formal thought disorder
• psychopathology » thought disorder » formal thought disorder

A thought disorder in which a series of thoughts appear to be only distantly (or loosely) related to one another or completely unrelated.

• clang association