parasigmatism

noun

para·​sigmatism

variants or less commonly parasigmatismus

¦parə+

: inability to pronounce the sound of s with some other sound (as of f) being usually substituted for it

Word History

Etymology

para- entry 1 + sigmatism or sigmatismus

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