English Dictionary

glossolalia

IPA（発音記号）

/ˌɡlɒsəˈleɪliə/

名詞

Speaking a language one does not know, or speaking elaborate but apparently meaningless speech, while in a trance-like state (or, supposedly, under the influence of a deity or spirits); speaking in tongues.

日本語の意味

トランス状態や神・霊の影響下で、本人が知らない言語や、見た目には複雑で意味不明な発語（異言、霊語）を行う現象。

During the ceremony, her sudden glossolalia startled the congregation and left scholars debating whether it was genuine or a learned performance.

式典の最中、彼女の突然の異言は会衆を驚かせ、それが本物なのか習得した演技なのか学者たちに議論させた。

意味（1）

Speaking a language one does not know, or speaking elaborate but apparently meaningless speech, while in a trance-like state (or, supposedly, under the influence of a deity or spirits); speaking in tongues.

[Adolf Bernhard Christoph] Hilgenfeld, indeed, is mistaken in explaining the unintelligibility of the γλω̑σσαι, only by the transcendent nature of what they expressed to the merely human consciousness; but he observes with great truth, that that which is common to prophecy and to glossolalia consisted in the exaltation of the consciousness above the merely human sphere, but that which is distinct consisted in this: that he who was prophetically inspired was in the full possession of his reflecting spiritual powers; […] [W]e showed that there is a human πνευ̑μα in a narrower sense, a capacity of immediate perception and insght. As all ecstasy, so also glossolalia was perfected in this πνευ̑μα: it was a miraculous agency of the Spirit of God […]

意味（2）

Synonym of xenoglossy (“knowledge of a language one has never learned”).

As he indicated in the subtitle of his study, [Olivier] Flournoy regarded [Hélène] Smith's Martian as a kind of glossolalia. In this category, he also included her Hindu, Ultra-Martian, and the other extraterrestrial tongues that she would later speak.

glossolalias （ plural ）