lapsus-slip of the tongue: meaning, definitions and translations

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What is lapsus? lapsus is slip of the tongue

What is slip of the tongue?

  • Faute commise en parlant (lapsus linguæ) ou en écrivant (lapsus calami) et qui consiste à substituer au terme attendu un autre mot.(La psychanalyse le considère comme une variété d'acte manqué.)

    Fault committed while speaking (lapsus linguæ) or writing (lapsus calami) and which consists in substituting the expected term another word. (Psychoanalysis considers it a variety of failed acts.)

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