TIL that when you say a word many times over, and it stops sounding like a word, that is called 'semantic satiation.' en.wikipedia.org Submitted by Bean_Superiority t3_11ebrs1 on February 28, 2023 at 3:45 PM in todayilearned 79 comments 1,824
Spare-Competition-91 t1_jadongg wrote on February 28, 2023 at 6:14 PM I've done this with words I find hard to really picture. I do this with a handful of words. In my brain, the word definitely loses all meaning and I'm like, this, what is this? Permalink −2−
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