disfluency

or dys·flu·en·cy

[ dis-floo-uhn-see ]

noun,plural dis·flu·en·cies for 2.
  1. Pathology. impairment of the ability to produce smooth, fluent speech.

  2. an interruption in the smooth flow of speech, as by a pause or the repetition of a word or syllable.

Origin of disfluency

1
First recorded in 1975–80; dis-1 + fluency

Words Nearby disfluency

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