voiceless
adjective
having no voice; mute.
voicelessness
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a word derived from
voiceless.
Example Sentences
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A year later, the alternative rock band Eve’s Plum, fronted by Colleen Fitzpatrick, conflated wearing lipstick with female voicelessness.
From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2026
These are quintessential gothic concepts—female powerlessness and voicelessness, the house as body or psyche—but Moreno-Garcia turns them up to 11, as del Toro did with his own gothic film, 2015’s Crimson Peak.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2020
Its results were definitive — and explained the reason for Vivienne’s prolonged voicelessness.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2019
About how Nas evoked Queensbridge’s voicelessness through poetry that was vivid and lurid, thrilling yet introspective, and dark with glimmers of hope.
From Time ● Apr. 25, 2014
Its broken tones, striving and struggling, almost rising at times into a shriek, seemed of all things to complain of its own voicelessness.
From Confession, or, the Blind Heart; a Domestic Story by William Gilmore Simms
