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autophony

autophony noun: the unusually loud hearing of a person's own voice, breathing or other self-generated sounds.

Noun

autophony (uncountable)

  1. The unusually loud hearing of a person's own voice, breathing or other self-generated sounds.
  2. An auscultatory process which consists of noting the tone of the observer's own voice, while he speaks, holding his head close to the patient's chest.

autophony meaning in Tamil

autophony in Tamil

தன்குரலுணர்வு

Synonyms of autophony

Origin of autophony

From auto- + -phony.

Questions about autophony

What does autophony mean?
Autophony means the unusually loud hearing of a person's own voice, breathing or other self-generated sounds.
What is autophony in Tamil?
Autophony in Tamil is தன்குரலுணர்வு. See Autophony meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is autophony?
Autophony is a noun.

Words near autophony in the dictionary

  1. autophones
  2. autophonia
  3. autophonic
  4. autophonoscope
  5. autophonoscopes
  6. autophony
  7. autophoresis
  8. autophoretic
  9. autophosphatase
  10. autophosphatases
  11. autophosphorylate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: autophony (page history and authors); autophony (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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