a word that sounds so similar to another word that it's often mistaken for, or erroneously used in place of, the correct word.
Misspoken figures of speech are often ripe with approxiphones. For example, "for all intensive purposes" instead of "for all intents and purposes" or "old timer's disease" instead of "Alzheimer's disease".
by The post apoc July 28, 2016
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