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speech defect vs voicelessness

voicelessness vs speech defect

speech defect and voicelessness both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
speech defect Yes No No No
voicelessness Yes No No No
As nouns, voicelessness is a hyponym of speech defect; that is, voicelessness is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than speech defect:
  • speech defect: a disorder of oral speech
  • voicelessness: a disorder of the vocal organs that results in the loss of voice
Other hyponyms of speech defect include anarthria, aphonia, cataphasia, dysarthria, dyslogia, dysphonia, lallation, lambdacism, lisp, stammer, stutter.
speech defect (noun) voicelessness (noun)
a disorder of oral speech having no voice in the management or control of affairs
speaking softly without vibration of the vocal cords
(phonetics, of a consonant) The property of being spoken without vibration of the vocal cords, as [t], [s], or [f].
a disorder of the vocal organs that results in the loss of voice
Difference between speech defect and voicelessness

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