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speechlessness

noun

Etymology

From speechless + -ness.

  1. inherited from *sprēkalausaz✻
  2. inherited from sprǣċlēas
  3. inherited from specheles
  4. suffixed as speechlessness — “speechless + ness”

Definitions

  1. The state of being speechless.

    • 'No - rather not, my dear? Well, another night,' he said, hastily translating her speechlessness.
    • It was her virtue to be tall, pale, characterless and effaced by partial speechlessness.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for speechlessness. 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