inarticulation
nounUK, US /ˌɪn.ɑː(ɹ).tɪk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/
Etymology From in- + articulation.
1
The state of being inarticulate; inarticulateness.
- "The inarticulation of a fond father in an undemonstrative family setting is brought out admirably..."1976, Uma Parameswaran, A Study of Representative Indo-English Novelists, →ISBN, page 81:
2
Education US Any point in the educational system in which the development of the individual is hindered.
- "Another traditional source of inarticulation is the requirement of an eighth-grade diploma for entrance to high school."1937, Fred Engelhardt, Alfred Victor Overn, Secondary Education: Principles and Practices, page 124:
3
An inarticulate or underarticulated utterance.
- "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."2002, Mad Macz, Internet Underground: The Way of the Hacker, page 111:
- Related terms
- underarticulation, overarticulation, hyperarticulation