Paraphasia

_ -- In this kind of paraphasia in adults the cause is a lack of attention; therefore purely central concentration is wanting, or one fails to "collect himself"; there is distraction, hence the unintentional, frequently unconscious, confounding of words similar in sound or connected merely by remote, often dim, reminiscences. ❋ William T. Preyer (1869)

Tom Whitmore @779 -- That sounds like an example of verbal paraphasia scroll down. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Turns out there's a name for this -- a literal paraphasia -- and it's just one kind of "senior moment," an unscientific term for a variety of mental glitches. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It looks like a case of iatrogenic paraphasia, perhaps induced by an accidental lesion to the temporal lobe? ❋ Unknown (2006)

In contrast, an out-of-class semantic or verbal paraphasia is so far removed from the actual thing that the utterance seems idiosyncratic and the meaning is obscure: private word usage. ❋ Michael Alan Taylor (1993)

An in-class semantic (referring to the meaning of words) or verbal paraphasia is a word usage that, although imprecise, remains understandable because the approximate word or phrase relates to some characteristic of the precise word (e.g., its basic function or class). ❋ Michael Alan Taylor (1993)