word association

noun

1. stimulation of an associative pattern by a word.

word association

noun

1. an early method of psychoanalysis in which the patient thinks of the first word that comes into consciousness on hearing a given word. In this way it was claimed that aspects of the unconscious could be revealed before defence mechanisms intervene

Example Sentences

Sometimes I tell people, if you do word association before covid and then today of the phrases drone, robot, AI—two years ago, the reaction would’ve been negative on all three of those.

From MIT Technology Review

Now, since The Voice is coming back, we wanted to play a little “word association” game.

From The Daily Beast

PLUS watch a fun video of the group playing word association, giving their thoughts on everyone from Anthony Weiner to A-Rod.

From The Daily Beast

When I ask him to do a little word association game, he has a few choice words for some of his opponents.

From The Daily Beast

If word association evidence produced strong evidence (high confidence scores) then that is what Watson goes with.

From The Daily Beast

Melroy could hear a recording of somebody being given a word-association test.

From Project Gutenberg

The word association properly signifies a society or convention of things in some respects similar to each other.

From Project Gutenberg