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hypophonia

hypophonia noun: the condition of having a quiet voice; inability to speak loudly.

Noun

hypophonia (uncountable)

  1. The condition of having a quiet voice; inability to speak loudly.
    • She would have to make a notable effort to speak, but the effort notwithstanding she would speak a whisper quite different in quality from the hypophonia she had shown in her pre-DOPA days.1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings

Origin of hypophonia

From hypo- + -phonia.

Words formed from hypophonia

Questions about hypophonia

What does hypophonia mean?
Hypophonia means the condition of having a quiet voice; inability to speak loudly.
What part of speech is hypophonia?
Hypophonia is a noun.

Words near hypophonia in the dictionary

  1. hypophases
  2. hypophasia
  3. hypophenylalaninemia
  4. hypophloeodal
  5. hypophloeodic
  6. hypophonia
  7. hypophonic
  8. hypophora
  9. hypophoras
  10. hypophoria
  11. hypophosphataemia

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