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PARAPRAXIS (parapraxes)

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does parapraxis mean? 

PARAPRAXIS (noun)
  The noun PARAPRAXIS has 1 sense:

1. a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.play

  Familiarity information: PARAPRAXIS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PARAPRAXIS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

miscue; parapraxis; slip; slip-up

Hypernyms ("parapraxis" is a kind of...):

error; fault; mistake (a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "parapraxis"):

Freudian slip (a slip-up that (according to Sigmund Freud) results from the operation of unconscious wishes or conflicts and can reveal unconscious processes in normal healthy individuals)


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