inarticulation

plural inarticulations

1. uncountableThe state of being inarticulate; inarticulateness.

   "The inarticulation of a fond father in an undemonstrative family setting is brought out admirably..."

   1976, Uma Parameswaran, A Study of Representative Indo-English Novelists, →ISBN, page 81

2. UScountableuncountableeducationAny point in the educational system in which the development of the individual is hindered.

   "Another traditional source of inarticulation is the requirement of an eighth-grade diploma for entrance to high school."

   1937, Fred Engelhardt, Alfred Victor Overn, Secondary Education: Principles and Practices, page 124

3. countableuncountableAn inarticulate or underarticulated utterance.

   "There are some methods of jargonification that became established quite early... These include verb doubling, sound-alike slang, the '-P' convention, overgeneralization, spoken inarticulations, and anthropomorphization."

   2002, Mad Macz, Internet Underground: The Way of the Hacker, page 111