disfluency
/ˈdɪsflʊənsi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.16 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Disfluency is a relatively recent construct. Not until the last century did fluency with the specific meaning of ease of speaking become a subject of widespread interest; and only in the mid-twentieth century did its corollary, the absence of such a facility, become the focus of systematic empirical study."