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wordlessness

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When Shane sang, that silence, the awful wordlessness was defeated.

From BBC Dec. 2, 2023

There’s something to the wordlessness of their pain, and the mystery of its depth.

From Washington Post Mar. 1, 2023

“One reason for the terrible wordlessness of the experience is that you cannot observe fire really closely without becoming part of it.”

From New York Times Aug. 14, 2021

The purity of it, it’s wordlessness – seems like a way through the divide into connection.

From The Guardian Dec. 12, 2019

A silence would follow, a wordlessness over the phone line that told him that it was his problem, not theirs.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie