voicelessness
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Noun (4)
- a disorder of the vocal organs that results in the loss of voiceSynonyms: aphoniaType of speech disorder, speech defect
- speaking softly without vibration of the vocal cordsSynonyms: whisperwhisperingsusurrationType of speaking, speech productionKinds stage whisper
- having no voice in the management or control of affairs“the voicelessness of those who live in situations of hopelessness”Type of powerlessness, impotence
- (phonetics, of a consonant) The property of being spoken without vibration of the vocal cords, as /t/, /s/, or /f/.“Instead, he plans to maintain voicelessness of the consonant and an unintended consequence of that effort is a pitch perturbation following release.”Type of speaking, speech production
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
“voicelessness” is listed under Voiceless.
Voice′less adjective
1. Having no voice, utterance, or vote; silent; mute; dumb.
I live and die unheard, With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a sword.— George Noel Gordon, Ld. Byron
2. Phon. Not sounded with voice; as, a voiceless consonant; surd.
Voiceless stop Phon., a consonant made with no audible sound except in the transition to or from another sound; a surd mute, as p, t, k.
— Voice′wb-a1′>′less·ly, adverb — Voice′wb-a1′>′less·ness, noun
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54