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单词 mussitation
释义

mussitation

English

Etymology

Latin mussātĭo (ceasing to speak)

Noun

mussitation (countable and uncountable, plural mussitations)

  1. speech conducted in a hushed manner, akin to a whisper or a murmur.
    • 1989, Nick Cave, And the Ass Saw the Angel
      The mussitation of the crowd dropped instantly.
  2. (medicine) A comatose patient's action of forming words with his lips without producing sound.

References

  • mussitation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

French

Noun

mussitation f (plural mussitations)

  1. (medicine) mussitation

Further reading

  • mussitation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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