| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | a·pho·ni·a |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   -f  n - |
| NOUN: | Loss of the voice resulting from disease, injury to the vocal cords, or various psychological causes, such as hysteria. | | ETYMOLOGY: | New Latin aphnia, from Greek aphni, speechlessness, from aphnos, voiceless : a-, without; see a–1 + phn, voice; see bh-2 in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | a·phonic (-f n k, -fnk) —ADJECTIVE
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