Meaning

1 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)Lack of fluency in speech; any of various breaks, irregularities, and non-lexical vocables that occur within otherwise fluent speech.

More definitions
  • lack of skillfulness in speaking or writing

Examples

1 sentences
  1. I think disfluencies are easy to ignore to the point of most people failing to commit them to memory.

    ruДумаю, речевые огрехи так легко пропускать мимо ушей, что большинство людей их не запоминает вовсе.

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Origin

From dis- + fluency.

From dis- + fluency.

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Forms

plural: disfluencies

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

1 related words

See also

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