noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Difficulty in expressing ideas in speech. countable, uncountable
2. 2
   impaired ability to express ideas verbally; usually resulting from difficulties of reasoning (as in feeblemindedness or certain psychoses) wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

croakcrowdysphasiafalsettoharshnesshiss

Etymology

From dys- + -logia.

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