What is another word for stammering?

Pronunciation: [stˈaməɹɪŋ] (IPA)

Stammering is a speech disorder that is characterized by an involuntary repetition or prolongation of sounds, syllables, or words. There are several synonyms for the word stammering, including stuttering, hesitation, stumbling, faltering, and pausing. Stuttering is the most commonly used synonym for stammering and refers to the repetition of sounds or words, while hesitation, stumbling, and faltering describe the breaking or interruption of speech. Pausing, on the other hand, refers to a deliberate stop in speech to gather one's thoughts or to emphasize a point. Each of these words can be used interchangeably with stammering to convey the same meaning.

What are the hypernyms for Stammering?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for stammering?

Antonyms for the word "stammering" include fluency, coherence, clarity, eloquence, and articulacy. Fluency pertains to the ability to speak smoothly and effortlessly, while coherence refers to the clarity and logic of one's speech. Clarity pertains to the crispness and precision of one's enunciation. Eloquence is the quality of speech that is pleasing to listen to and expresses ideas clearly and persuasively. Articulacy is the ability to articulate words accurately and with ease. These antonyms illustrate the qualities of a confident and proficient speaker, which are the opposite of the difficulties associated with stammering.

What are the antonyms for Stammering?

Usage examples for Stammering

The abruptness of the question set Ben Howard stammering again.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
She was horribly tired of talking; she had talked all day-talked nonsense, stammering over it.
"The Furnace"
Rose Macaulay
All this is nothing but the stammering of men who are just awaking.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae

Famous quotes with Stammering

  • God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.
    John Calvin
  • No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.
    Jeremy Taylor
  • Art that means anything in the life of a community must bear some relation to current interpretations of the mystery of the universe. Our rigid separation of the humanities and the sciences has temporarily left our art stranded or stammering and incoherent.
    Dora Russell
  • [T]he magician emerges from bed and we recount our tale. Her response lacks gratitude: stammering furiously, she chides us for the damage to her lawns and flowerbed. The boy is smacked; I am Spasmed; we both spend the day with nail-clippers attending to the damage to the garden.
    Jonathan Stroud
  • Aristotle feels this so strongly with reference to Plato's external, as contrasted with his own immanent, teleology that, forgetting his own concession elsewhere, he once roundly asserts that the final cause is 'not touched by the Ideas'. Again, what is the relation of the Idea of the Good to other ends (Ideas) or to the special functions of things? Efficient causes Plato attributes at one time to Idea, at another to soul: which is his real doctrine? and what is the relation of Idea to soul? Aristotle, therefore, while willing to admit that Plato made 'stammering' efforts in the direction of efficient and final causes, was perfectly justified in thinking that he had not 'fully worked them out'.
    Plato

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