word association
noun
mass noun
- the spontaneous and unreflective production of other words in response to a given word, as a game, a prompt to creative thought or memory, or a technique in psychiatric evaluation（作为游戏, 对创造性思维或回忆的提示, 或精神病评估手段的）字词联想（由某给定词自发、不假思索地引出其他词）。