disfluency

noun
/ˈdɪsflʊənsi/

Etymology

From dis- + fluency.

  1. borrowed from fluentia
  2. formed as disfluency — “dis- + fluency

Definitions

  1. Lack of fluency in speech

    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.
    • Siegel considered at some length, without resolving it, the apparent paradox between traditional views of stuttering and modern demonstrations that punishment (i.e. contingent aversive stimulation) tends to decrease disfluency.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for disfluency. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA