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dysphrasia

dysphrasia noun: a speech defect characterised by an inability to put words into an intelligible order.

Noun

dysphrasia

  1. A speech defect characterised by an inability to put words into an intelligible order

Origin of dysphrasia

From dys- + -phrasia.

Questions about dysphrasia

What does dysphrasia mean?
Dysphrasia means a speech defect characterised by an inability to put words into an intelligible order.
What part of speech is dysphrasia?
Dysphrasia is a noun.

Words near dysphrasia in the dictionary

  1. dysphorically
  2. dysphorics
  3. dysphotic
  4. dysphotopsia
  5. dysphotopsias
  6. dysphrasia
  7. dysphrenia
  8. dysphrenias
  9. dysphrenic
  10. dysphrenics
  11. dysphuistic

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