aphonia

1. 1.

   a disorder of the vocal organs that results in the loss of voice

   Synonymsvoicelessness

   Broaderspeech disorder

Other forms of aphonia

plural

aphonias·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about aphonia

What does aphonia mean?

aphonia means "a disorder of the vocal organs that results in the loss of voice".

How many syllables are in aphonia?

aphonia has 4 syllables: a-pho-ni-a. The stress falls on "pho".

What is another word for aphonia?

Close synonyms include voicelessness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is aphonia a common word?

aphonia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.