defect of speech

1. 1.

   a disorder of oral speech

   Synonymsspeech disorderspeech defect

   Broaderdisorder

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Questions about defect of speech

What does defect of speech mean?

defect of speech means "a disorder of oral speech".

What is another word for defect of speech?

Close synonyms include speech disorder, speech defect. 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 defect of speech a common word?

defect of speech 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.