ENUNCIATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does enunciation mean? 

• ENUNCIATION (noun)
  The noun ENUNCIATION has 1 sense:

1. the articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience

  Familiarity information: ENUNCIATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENUNCIATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

diction; enunciation

Hypernyms ("enunciation" is a kind of...):

articulation (the aspect of pronunciation that involves bringing articulatory organs together so as to shape the sounds of speech)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "enunciation"):

mumbling (indistinct enunciation)

Derivation:

enunciate (express or state clearly)

enunciate (speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way)

 Context examples 

His voice was cold, sharp, and final, his lips stamping the enunciation of each word like the die of a machine.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A calm, subdued triumph, blent with a longing earnestness, marked his enunciation of the last glorious verses of that chapter.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He had vowed to be with me on my wedding-night, yet he did not consider that threat as binding him to peace in the meantime, for as if to show me that he was not yet satiated with blood, he had murdered Clerval immediately after the enunciation of his threats.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)