ventriloquism.

The performance skill of speaking while minimizing visible mouth movement so that a voice seems to come from another source.

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Words that belong together

• an act of ventriloquism
• ventriloquism with a dummy

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Ventriloquism made the wooden figure seem to answer before its handler moved.

She suspected ventriloquism when the voice appeared to come from the locked cabinet.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.