mussitation
5 synonyms for mussitation, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — Talking very quietly, almost like a murmur or whisper.
Synonyms
Rare, literary or technical
Precise, but they will stand out — check the sense before using one.
Etymology
A learned borrowing from Latin mussitātiō (“soft noise made by dogs, or (Late Latin) people”) plus English -ion (suffix denoting a condition or state). Mussitātiō itself derives from mussitātus (“kept quiet; having been kept quiet; murmured, muttered; having been muttered”) — see further at mussitate — plus -iō (suffix...
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