Aphonia
/eɪˈfəʊ.ni.ə/ noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Loss of voice; the inability to speak. countable, uncountable
- 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.