Meanings
nounhypophonia (uncountable)
- uncountablemedicineThe condition of having a quiet voice; inability to speak loudly.
She would have to make a notable effort to speak, but the effort notwithstanding she would speak a whisper quite different in quality from the hypophonia she had shown in her pre-DOPA days.
1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
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