umlessness
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[edit]Noun
[edit]umlessness (uncountable)
- (rare) The avoidance of the hesitating interjection um in speech.
- 2007 August 24, William Grimes, “Uh, Lead My Rips: No More Bloopers”, in New York Times[1]:
- “People began to prefer umlessness in public speaking and conversation around the same time that they began to value order, organization, planning and efficiency in an increasingly complex and urbanizing society,” he writes.
- 2007, Michael Erard, Um... slips, stumbles, and verbal blunders, and what they mean:
- Yet umlessness was taught as the norm for private and intimate spheres of life.