at|o|ny

at|o|ny
at|o|ny «AT uh nee», noun.
1. Medicine. lack of tone; muscular weakness, especially in a contractile organ; enervation; debility.
2. Phonetics. lack of stress.
[< Late Latin atonia < Greek atoníā < átonos < a- without + tónos strain, stress]

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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