Why do we sometimes say a word or look at a word so many times that it sounds foreign/doesn’t look like a real word?

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Like when you’re taking notes and you write a word and it just doesn’t seem spelled correctly no matter what or it just seems strange, or when you say a word and it feels weird coming out and you have difficulty comprehending that it’s an actual word.

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Rule 2. You can find this on Wikipedia.

Rule 7: Search before posting.

The term is *semantic satiation*.

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