mogilalia

[moj-uh-ley-lee-uh, -leyl-yuh]

noun

1. any speech disorder characterized by difficulty or hesitancy in speech production, as stuttering or stammering; disfluency.

Word History and Origins

Origin of mogilalia¹

First recorded in 1875–80; from Greek mogilál(os) “hardly talking” ( mógi(s) “with difficulty” + lálos “babbling”) + -ia noun suffix; -ia

Example Sentences

These examples illustrate very well the mogilalia and paralalia that exist in every child, but with differences in each individual.

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Only the examples added for explaining mogilalia and paralalia are taken in part from Sigismund, a few others from Vierordt.

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Mogilalia.—Children, on account of the as yet deficient control of the external organs of speech, especially of the tongue, can not yet form some sounds, and therefore omit them.

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