voicelessness

Variant of voiceless

voiceless definition

voice·less (vo̵is′lis)

adjective

  1. having no voice; dumb; mute
  2. not speaking; silent
  3. not spoken; not uttered a voiceless wish
  4. lacking a musical voice or the ability to sing
  5. having no voice, or vote; lacking suffrage
  6. Phonet. articulated without simultaneous vibration of the vocal cords; surd: said of certain consonants, as (p), (s), and (c̸h)

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