wordlessness
wordlessness noun: the state of being wordless, speechlessness.
Noun
wordlessness (usually uncountable, plural wordlessnesses)
- The state of being wordless, speechlessness.
- The peculiarity of their attachment, one made up of gentle attentions and pleasant thoughts together, its wordlessness, and its mysterious ending, all had charms for a mind, which naturally clear and direct, had been led by love into a pensive and thoughtful habit.1834, ‘P.’, “Margaret Campbell” in American Ladies’ Magazine, Volume 7, No. 5, May 1834, p. 203
- Whenever you abandon ground to the enemy, it is retreat, however words coat and oil it, and there is a special sound to American troops in retreat. It is their wordlessness, their silence. All the sounds Mackenzie could hear were mechanical.1951, Pat Frank, chapter 7, in Hold Back the Night, Philadelphia: Lippincott
Forms of wordlessness
| plural | wordlessnesses |
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Origin of wordlessness
From wordless + -ness.
Questions about wordlessness
- What does wordlessness mean?
- Wordlessness means the state of being wordless, speechlessness.
- What part of speech is wordlessness?
- Wordlessness is a noun.
- What is the plural of wordlessness?
- The plural of wordlessness is wordlessnesses.
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