dysfluency

American  

[dis-floo-uhn-see] / dɪsˈflu ən si /

noun

plural

dysfluencies

1. disfluency.

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Etymology

Origin of dysfluency

By confusion of dys- with dis- ¹

Example Sentences

"He has dysfluency and stuttering. I was astonished that he was getting out there and doing it."

From Los Angeles Times

He read constantly, even during the worst of his illness, and he would pore over literature on head trauma and brain disease, putting exclamation points in the margins and circling terms that he thought applied to him, such as “ice pick headache” and “disinhibition” and “dysfluency.”

From Scientific American