gutturalism

English

Etymology

From guttural +‎ -ism.

Noun

gutturalism (usually uncountable, plural gutturalisms)

  1. The quality of being guttural.
    • 1871, John Earle, The Philology of the English Tongue:
      to reassert the languishing gutturalism of h and (we may add) of r.

References

“gutturalism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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