Voicelessness

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Voiceless \Voice"less\, a.
     1. Having no voice, utterance, or vote; silent; mute; dumb.
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              I live and die unheard,
              With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a


              sword.                                --Byron.
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     2. (Phon.) Not sounded with voice; as, a voiceless consonant;
        surd.
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     {Voiceless stop} (Phon.), a consonant made with no audible
        sound except in the transition to or from another sound; a
        surd mute, as p, t, k.
        [1913 Webster] -- {Voice"less*ly}, adv. --
        {Voice"less*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  voicelessness
       n : a disorder of the vocal organs that results in the loss of
           voice [syn: {aphonia}]