Noun
speechlessness (plural speechlessnesses)
- The state of being speechless.
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:'No - rather not, my dear? Well, another night,' he said, hastily translating her speechlessness.
1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 16:It was her virtue to be tall, pale, characterless and effaced by partial speechlessness.
Translations
state of being speechless
- Afrikaans: spraakloosheid
- Esperanto: senparoleco, muteco
- German: Sprachlosigkeit (de) f, Stummheit (de) f
- Greek:
- Ancient: ἀλαλία f (alalía)
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