autophony

9.9

A condition where you hear your own voice and breathing very loudly in your head

noun
/ˌɔːtəˈfoʊni/

Specialized

: autofonía

After the hearing test, she was surprised to learn that her condition included autophony, which made her voice sound unusually loud.

Examples

The doctor explained that autophony often occurs when the eustachian tube is blocked, making internal sounds more prominent.
The left-sided aural fullness, autophony, and tinnitus remained completely resolved, and his hearing had returned to preoperative levels.

Academic text (2009)
He experienced autophony during the concert, hearing his own singing echoing back to him much louder than usual.

Surface Forms

autophony singular

autophonies plural

Morphology

autophony = auto + phon + y

Although auto- means 'self' and the word contains a Greek sound/voice element, the medical sense is specialized and not directly predictable for most learners.

Etymology

Autophony comes from auto- meaning 'self' and -phony from a Greek word for 'sound', as in symphony. So autophony literally means 'self-sound', which is why it describes hearing your own voice or body sounds unusually loudly.