Meaning of anendophasia | Babel Free

Definitions

The absence of the experience of inner speech.

uncountable

Examples

“What methods are suitable for investigating the question of whether some people do not use IS [inner speech] at all (sometimes termed anauralia or anendophasia)?”

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

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

“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).”

“Because there is a crucial difference between self-reported low prevalence and complete lack of inner speech, I instead argue that the claim is noticeably divorced from both Nedergaard and Lupyan’s (2024) data and from other data they present in support of the existence of anendophasia.”

CEFR level