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Aphonia

//eɪˈfəʊ.ni.ə// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Loss of voice; the inability to speak. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    a disorder of the vocal organs that results in the loss of voice wordnet

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin aphōnia, from Ancient Greek ἀφωνία (aphōnía, “speechlessness”). By surface analysis, a- + -phonia.

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