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psellism

Meaning of "psellism" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PSELLISM

ˈselɪzəm


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PSELLISM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Psellism is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PSELLISM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of psellism in the English dictionary

The definition of psellism in the dictionary is stammering.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PSELLISM

alcoholism · capitalism · cataclysm · colonialism · evangelism · formalism · imperialism · journalism · liberalism · metabolism · minimalism · nationalism · photojournalism · professionalism · realism · socialism · surrealism · symbolism · uricotelism · vandalism

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PSELLISM

pschent · psellismus · psephism · psephite · psephitic · psephoanalyses · psephoanalysis · psephological · psephologically · psephologist · psephology · pseud · pseud. · pseudaesthesia · pseudarthroses · pseudarthrosis · pseudaxis · pseudepigraph

WORDS THAT END LIKE PSELLISM

bimetallism · citizen journalism · embolism · Gaullism · heterothallism · homothallism · individualism · John Bullism · literalism · Machiavellism · materialism · monometallism · multiculturalism · Orientalism · parallelism · Parnellism · phallism · pluralism · pointillism · symmetallism

Synonyms and antonyms of psellism in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «psellism» into 25 languages

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The translations of psellism from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «psellism» in English.
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psellism
1,325 millions of speakers
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psellism
570 millions of speakers
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psellism
510 millions of speakers
hi

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psellism
380 millions of speakers
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psellism
280 millions of speakers
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psellism
278 millions of speakers
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psellism
270 millions of speakers
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psellism
260 millions of speakers
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220 millions of speakers
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Psellism
190 millions of speakers
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psellism
180 millions of speakers
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psellism
130 millions of speakers
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psellism
85 millions of speakers
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Psellism
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psellism
80 millions of speakers
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Psellism
75 millions of speakers
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psellism
70 millions of speakers
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psellism
65 millions of speakers
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psellism
50 millions of speakers
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40 millions of speakers
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30 millions of speakers
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psellism
14 millions of speakers
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psellism
10 millions of speakers
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psellism
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about psellism

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PSELLISM»

Discover the use of psellism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to psellism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A manual of the philosophy of voice and speech, especially ...
The causes of Psellism * are either organic, dynamic, or psychical. Among organic causes must be classed — cleft palate, hare-lip, abnormal conditions of the tongue, soft palate, and uvula. It is chiefly in such cases that the surgeon's ...
James Hunt, 1859
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California Studies in Classical Antiquity
This definition is particularly interesting because in this same passage psellism is identified as a distinct type of speech defect different from both lisping and loxvofavLa (inability to connect one syllable with another quickly). In another passage ...
University of California, 1968
3
Stammering and stuttering
Psellism is mutilated speech (loquutio detruncata), when a letter or a syllable is omitted. Ischnophonia (to which, however, he prefers ischo- phonia) is when a man in the middle of his speech, by some impediment, cannot properly connect the ...
James Hunt, 1870
4
Stutter
The polio survivor Walter Scott, for example, referred to his “paralytic custom of stuttering with my pen.”123 The anonymous essay “Psellism” (the word comes from the Greek psellízein, meaning “to stammer”), published in Charles Dickens'  ...
Marc Shell, 2009
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California Studies in Classical Antiquity
This definition is particularly interesting because in this same passage psellism is identified as a distinct type of speech defect different from both lisping and Urxyofavux. (inability to connect one syllable with another quickly). In another ...
‎1969
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ElderSpeak: A Thesaurus or Compendium of Words Related to ...
... 307 prosopagnosis, 307 prosophobia, 307 prosopolethy, 308 prostatism, 308 prostatomegaly, 308 prosthesis, 308 prosthodontics/prosthodontia, 308 protervity , 308 Prufrockian, 309 prurient, 309 pruritus, 309 psellism, 309 pseudomnesia, ...
James L. Reynolds, MD, 2014
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Rājapāla aṅgrezī-Hindī pāribhāshika śabdakośa
4I^VR4 psellism п. «<1'^+с-ч psephisma и. 4lftd f¥4 tftfwïï pseudandry а ФЗ-^рПЧ snff7! pseudepigraph n. 1. «<a?l<a, злёй ^Э; 2. pseudepigraphy п. tssiclísM, *iwt pseudo- п. ^Z; -behaviourism ЗПЧГСА ЯЩЩЩТ^; - chromesthesia ^fZ^nfa^fäffl; ...
Hardev Bahri, 1995
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Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, by J.M. Good, O. ...
PSELLISM US. (^xifjioc ; from 4-ixxi/w, hesitation of speech.) Defect of speech. A genus of disease in the class locales and order dyscenesiae of Cullen. PSEUDO, from -Iwht, a Greek term used in the composition of many words, to denote false ...
John Mason Good, Olinthus Gilbert Gregory, 1813
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The Medical and Physical Journal
The rich productions of ancient medicine are barren on this point. What Hippocrates, Aristotle, and Galen, have said on it, is hardly worth quoting, and their silence on the treatment of psellism, seems to have devoted it (o absolute incurability.
‎1818
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Inverted Medical Dictionary, Second Edition
ALPHABETICAL strychnine-bearing (cont.) St. Ignatius' bean strychnos nux vomica study of... (see under specific area) stuttering lingual titubation mogilalia molilalia stuttering or stammering in general psellism due to harelip or cleft palate sty, ...
Bruce C. Carlstedt, Mary J. Stanaszek, Walter F. Stanaszek, 1991
REFERENCE
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