agitophasia
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin agitō (“I put something in motion, drive, impel”) + Ancient Greek φάσις (phásis, “utterance, statement, expression”) + -ia.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
agitophasia (uncountable)
- (pathology) A condition characterized by abnormally rapid speech in which words, sounds, or syllables are unconsciously omitted, slurred, or distorted.
- 1920, “Good News for Stutterers and Other Defectives in Speech”, in American Magazine, volume 90, page 177:
- Thousands of persons suffer from agitophasia in some degree. This, in fact, is the most common of speech defect.