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speechlessness
Variant of speechless
adjective
- incapable of speech; lacking the ability to speak
- temporarily unable to speak; silent, as from shock
- not expressed or expressible in words: speechless terror
Related Forms:
- speechlessly adverb
- speechlessness noun
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