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English
Etymology
From in- + articulation.
Pronunciation
Noun
inarticulation (countable and uncountable, plural inarticulations)
- (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..."
- (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."
- 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."
French
Pronunciation
Noun
inarticulation f (plural inarticulations)
- inarticulation
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