mussitation
English
Etymology
Latin mussātĭo (“ceasing to speak”)
Noun
mussitation (countable and uncountable, plural mussitations)
- 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.
- 1989, Nick Cave, And the Ass Saw the Angel
- (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)
- (medicine) mussitation
Further reading
- “mussitation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.