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noun
Any mental or bodily malfunction that makes expressing oneself by speech difficult.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a disorder of oral speech
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: speech defect, defect of speech
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: disorder, upset
Narrower terms: anarthria, aphonia, voicelessness, cataphasia, dysarthria, dyslogia, dysphonia, lallation, lambdacism, lisp, stammer, stutter
History
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Across languages
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