Usually means: Impediment or disorder in speech.
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  1. psellism: Collins English Dictionary
  2. psellism: Wordnik
  3. psellism: Wiktionary
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  5. Psellism, psellism: Dictionary.com
  6. Psellism: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. psellism: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. psellism: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  9. Psellism: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. psellism: FreeDictionary.org
  11. psellism: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  12. psellism: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. psellism-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

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Definitions from Wiktionary (psellism)

▸ noun:  (archaic) stammering; stuttering

Similar:
stammer, hesitation, stuttering, pseudostuttering, cluttering, speech disfluency, covert stuttering, sputter, traulism, splutter, more...

Opposite:
dyslexia, aphasia, speech disorder

Types:
palilalia, ejaculatio praecox, coprolalia, copropraxia, parecholalia, more...

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Similar:
stammer, hesitation, stuttering, pseudostuttering, cluttering, speech disfluency, covert stuttering, sputter, traulism, splutter, more...

Opposite:
dyslexia, aphasia, speech disorder

Types:
palilalia, ejaculatio praecox, coprolalia, copropraxia, parecholalia, more...



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