NOUN
- repetitive nonmeaningful speech (especially that associated with a trance state or religious fervor)
How To Use glossolalia In A Sentence
- Some Christian services include glossolalia, spirit possession, and faith healing.
- The soundtrack combines Pentecostal glossolalia (speaking in tongues) with recordings of unrestrained laughter.
- The third symptom, glossolalia, was observed in two of the orderlies and one physician, who were admitted over the course of the evening.
- Some Christian services include glossolalia, spirit possession, and faith healing.
- At other times, dozens of them are laid on top of each other, creating not a rational counterpoint but instead the heady glossolalia of nature.
- The speaker's words mirror that disorder, the inability to sustain coherent thought, dwindling to glossolalia.
- In the Middle Ages, as in certain primitive societies, they were thought to be under the special protection of God, and the possibility always existed that what sounded like inane chatter was, in actual fact, theopneustic glossolalia. WISDOM OF THE FOOL
- The majority of these southern saints are distinguished from the vulgar herd by idiosyncrasies to which modern physicians give singular names such as "gynophobia," "glossolalia" and Old Calabria
- Pentecostalism takes its name from its central tenet of baptism in the Spirit and the associated experience of speaking in tongues or glossolalia.
- In charismatic Christian communities glossolalia is sacred and referred to as ‘speaking in tongues’ or having ‘the gift of tongues.’