Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A mumbling or muttering.
- n. In pathology, movement of the lips and tongue as in speaking, but without articulation: a sign of bad omen in disease.
Wiktionary
- n. speech conducted in a hushed manner, akin to a whisper or a murmur.
- n. medicine A comatose patient's action of forming words with his lips without producing sound.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete A speaking in a low tone; mumbling.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech
Etymologies
- Latin mussātĭo, ceasing to speak (Wiktionary)
Examples
“315 Certain parts should be recited aloud (jahr) and others sotto voce (with mussitation = Khafi).”
“Not conversation by any civilized standard, but a kind of a mussitation, the prisoner’s half-mime half-whisper, under the nodding eye of an orderly.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mussitation’.
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phrontistery - m
from phrontistery.info
multiloculate, multilocation, multiflorous, multifid, multifarious, multicipital, multeity, multarticulate, multanimous, mulse, mullock, mullion and 898 more...
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Words without the letter E
chord, slur, anabaptist, anabolic, diabolic, turbid, torpid, somniloquist, trump, bipolar, dioxin, hydrocarbon and 107 more...
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You Don't Say
Language disorders, disabilities, and unusual demonstrations.
aphasia, aphonia, dysarthria, glossolalia, paraphasia, alexia, polymicrogyria, logorrhea, stutter, spoonerism, agraphia, malapropism and 54 more...
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Unsorted
poliorcetikon, lethologica, aegrotat, haha, logolepsy, logomisia, anfractuosity, nudiustertian, tontine, herostrat, acroamatic, bibliotaph and 132 more...
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Papageno's Words, Pt. II
cicurate, circumforaneous, codger, comiconomenclaturist, constable, contradistinction, contraindicated, counterpane, coxcomb, decalcomania, decanal, decoction and 307 more...
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ecbrenner's list
flatline, luddism, apocalipstick, muttsucker, leviathan of fore..., flint, coryphaeus, donnybrook, bandwidth, bagpipe the mizen, cheesed off, asterism and 525 more...
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
zeugma, ziggurat, xiphoid, xeric, whizgigging, whangdoodle, viviparous, vivific, vinolent, verjuice, vellicate, velleity and 1193 more...
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Brochettes of Random Palavery
Another of my random palavery lists for words or phrases that haven't yet found a place in one or more of my other lists.
nonexclusivity, adaptationist, paxillin, adduct, unblushingly cribbed, ptomaïne, microsievert, millisievert, too big to jail, tastemaker, tinsmithing, Nimzo-Indian and 1616 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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mussitation
it is better to be alert
mussitation, skeuomorph, indigen, nostrum, bestir, obreption, nisus, fettle, midden, philtre, apodictic, mendicant and 4 more...
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M or N?
nurk, nyaffle, nosism, nexum, nazar, noyade, nooningscaup, mimp, mida, mollynogging, mulciberian, marzavec and 68 more...
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