speechlessness

1. 1.

   the property of being speechless

   Broadersilence

Other forms of speechlessness

plural

speechlessnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about speechlessness

What does speechlessness mean?

speechlessness means "the property of being speechless".

How many syllables are in speechlessness?

speechlessness has 3 syllables and divides as speech-les-sness under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.