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ventrilocution

ventrilocution is the obsolete form of ventriloquism.

Meaning of ventriloquism

Noun

ventriloquism (countable and uncountable, plural ventriloquisms)

  1. The art of projecting one's voice without moving the lips so that it appears to come from another source, such as a dummy.

Origin of ventrilocution

From ventri- + locution.

Questions about ventrilocution

What is ventrilocution the obsolete form of?
Ventrilocution is the obsolete form of ventriloquism.

Words near ventrilocution in the dictionary

  1. ventriduct
  2. ventrifixation
  3. ventrifixations
  4. ventriflexion
  5. ventrilateral
  6. ventrilocution
  7. ventriloqual
  8. ventriloqually
  9. ventriloquate
  10. ventriloquated
  11. ventriloquates

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ventrilocution (page history and authors); ventriloquism (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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