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speakerlessness

noun

Etymology

From speakerless + -ness.

  1. derived from *sprekô✻ — “speaker”
  2. derived from speca
  3. inherited from speker
  4. suffixed as speakerless — “speaker + less”
  5. suffixed as speakerlessness — “speakerless + ness”

Definitions

  1. Absence of a speaker.

    • Instead of the speakerlessness of sentences with a third person SELF, what is espoused is the idea that in such sentences there is a blending of two points of view or 'voices,' […]
    • In each, however, the ritualistic quality of the prosody (following from the genres of invocation and epitaph) conspires with other elements to push the poem toward the condition of speakerlessness.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for speakerlessness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA