How to pronounce“lenition”in English
IPA/ləˈnɪʃən/
Syllablesle·ni·ti·on
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noun
A weakening of articulation causing a consonant to become lenis (soft).
“One of these processes, the process of T-Lenition, is extremely common, even though it takes place only when the input consonant is adjacent to a small number of affixes. In this change, a stopped consonant, [p t k b d g], becomes a fricative, [s, z, š, ž]. This process is called lenition, or weakening.”