There's a Word for That: Semantic Satiation

[underused]

You know that thing where you say a word so many times it starts to sound wrong?

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Semantic satiation (also semantic saturation) is a psychological phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, who then perceives the speech as repeated meaningless sounds.

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Technically, there are two words for that.

Comments

[underused]

Choice? Hm. Are you sure that's a word?

hahaha

[merikuru]

At this point? No. :D