speechlessness
speechlessness noun: the state of being speechless.
Noun
speechlessness (plural speechlessnesses)
- The state of being speechless.
- 'No - rather not, my dear? Well, another night,' he said, hastily translating her speechlessness.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 233
- It was her virtue to be tall, pale, characterless and effaced by partial speechlessness.1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 16
speechlessness meaning in Hindi, Tamil and Kannada
speechlessness in Hindi
- state of being speechless
- निःशब्दता niḥśabdatā
speechlessness in Tamil
- மூகம்
speechlessness in Kannada
- ಮೂಕವಾಗಿರುವಿಕೆ, ಮಾತಿಲ್ಲದಿರುವಿಕೆ, ಮಾತನಾಡಲಾಗದಿರುವಿಕೆ, ಮೌನವಾಗಿರುವಿಕೆ, ಮಾತು ಕಟ್ಟಿಹೋಗುವಿಕೆ
Forms of speechlessness
| plural | speechlessnesses |
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Origin of speechlessness
From speechless + -ness.
Questions about speechlessness
- What does speechlessness mean?
- Speechlessness means the state of being speechless.
- What is speechlessness in Hindi?
- Speechlessness in Hindi is निःशब्दता (niḥśabdatā). See Speechlessness meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is speechlessness?
- Speechlessness is a noun.
- What is the plural of speechlessness?
- The plural of speechlessness is speechlessnesses.
Words near speechlessness in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: speechlessness (page history and authors); speechlessness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); speechlessness (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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