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SPEECHLESSNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does speechlessness mean?
• SPEECHLESSNESS (noun)
The noun SPEECHLESSNESS has 1 sense:
1. the property of being speechless
Familiarity information: SPEECHLESSNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The property of being speechless
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("speechlessness" is a kind of...):
quiet; silence (the absence of sound)
Derivation:
speechless (temporarily incapable of speaking)
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