disfluency

or dys·flu·en·cy

[ dis-floo-uhn-see ]

noun

, plural dis·flu·en·cies

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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of disfluency¹

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