mogiphonia means Difficulty in speaking, triggered by the effort of singing or speaking loudly. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 89 out of 100.
Why this word is great
MOGIPHONIA — [Noun] A specific laryngeal resistance, a difficulty in speaking triggered by the effortful exertion of singing or speaking loudly. From the Ancient Greek μόγις (mógis, "with toil and pain, with difficulty") + -phonia ("voice, sound"). Unlike aphonia, which is the voice’s total desertion, or the broad clinical sweep of dysphonia, mogiphonia is the precise tax levied by ambition upon the instrument. It is the preacher’s voice fraying into a rasp at the sermon’s climax, the singer’s note dissolving into a breathless scrape on the final chorus, the activist’s shout collapsing mid-chant into a painful whisper—a quiet, anatomical veto against our attempts to project the self further than it is willing to go.
noun
- Difficulty in speaking, triggered by the effort of singing or speaking loudly.