English

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Etymology

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From in- +‎ articulation.

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Noun

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inarticulation (countable and uncountable, plural inarticulations)

  1. (uncountable) The state of being inarticulate; inarticulateness.
    • 1976, Uma Parameswaran, A Study of Representative Indo-English Novelists, →ISBN, page 81:
      "The inarticulation of a fond father in an undemonstrative family setting is brought out admirably..."
  2. (education, US) Any point in the educational system in which the development of the individual is hindered.
    • 1937, Fred Engelhardt, Alfred Victor Overn, Secondary Education: Principles and Practices, page 124:
      "Another traditional source of inarticulation is the requirement of an eighth-grade diploma for entrance to high school."
  3. An inarticulate or underarticulated utterance.
    • 2002, Mad Macz, Internet Underground: The Way of the Hacker, page 111:
      "There are some methods of jargonification that became established quite early... These include verb doubling, sound-alike slang, the '-P' convention, overgeneralization, spoken inarticulations, and anthropomorphization."
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French

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Noun

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inarticulation f (plural inarticulations)

  1. inarticulation

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