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Mussitation

//mʌsɪˈteɪʃn̩// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Speech conducted in a hushed manner, akin to a murmur or a whisper. archaic, countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "The mussitation of the crowd dropped instantly."

  2. 2
    a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech wordnet
  3. 3
    A comatose patient's action of forming words with their lips without producing sound. countable, uncountable

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin mussitātiō (“soft noise made by dogs, or (Late Latin) people”) + English -ion (suffix denoting a condition or state). Mussitātiō is derived from mussitātus (“kept quiet; having been kept quiet; murmured, muttered; having been muttered”) (see further at mussitate) + -iō (suffix forming abstract nouns from verbs).

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