• Inarticulation

    Pronunciation

    • UK IPA: /ˌɪn.ɑː(ɹ).tɪk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/
    • Rhymes: -eɪʃən

    Full definition of inarticulation

    Noun

    inarticulation

    (uncountable)
    1. uncountable The state of being inarticulate; inarticulateness.
      • 1976, Uma Parameswaran, A Study of Representative Indo-English Novelists, ISBN 0706904109, page 81:"The inarticulation of a fond father in an undemonstrative family setting is brought out admirably..."
    2. (education, US) Any point in the educational system in which the development of the individual is hindered.
      • 1937, Fred Engelhardt and Alfred Victor Overn, Secondary Education: Principles and Practices http://books.google.com/books?id=DyraAw_ALUsC, page 124:"Another traditional source of inarticulation is the requirement of an eighth-grade diploma for entrance to high school."
    3. An inarticulate or underarticulated utterance.
      • 2002, Mad Macz, Internet Underground: The Way of the Hacker http://books.google.com/books?id=Q5OHEW8_gysC, 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."
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