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dysfluency

dysfluency is the alternative form of disfluency.

Meaning of disfluency

Noun

disfluency (countable and uncountable, plural disfluencies)

  1. Lack of fluency in speech; any of various breaks, irregularities, and non-lexical vocables that occur within otherwise fluent speech.
    • To the long list of everyday afflictions that includes dry, itchy skin and restless leg syndrome, add another: speech disfluency.2007 August 24, William Grimes, “Uh, Lead My Rips: No More Bloopers”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2013

Forms of dysfluency

pluraldysfluencies

Origin of dysfluency

From dys- + fluency.

Questions about dysfluency

What is dysfluency the alternative form of?
Dysfluency is the alternative form of disfluency.

Words near dysfluency in the dictionary

  1. dysfibrinogenemia
  2. dysfibrinogenemias
  3. dysfibrinogenemic
  4. dysfibrogenemia
  5. dysfluencies
  6. dysfluency
  7. dysfluent
  8. dysfluently
  9. dysfunction
  10. dysfunctional
  11. dysfunctionalism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dysfluency (page history and authors); disfluency (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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