voicelessness

1. 1.

   a disorder of the vocal organs that results in the loss of voice

   Synonymsaphonia

   Broaderspeech disorder
2. 2.

   speaking softly without vibration of the vocal cords

   Synonymswhisperwhisperingsusurration

   Broaderspeaking

   Narrowerstage whisper
3. 3.

   having no voice in the management or control of affairs

   “the voicelessness of those who live in situations of hopelessness”

   Broaderpowerlessness

Other forms of voicelessness

plural

voicelessnesses·

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 voicelessness

What does voicelessness mean?

voicelessness means "a disorder of the vocal organs that results in the loss of voice". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in voicelessness?

voicelessness has 4 syllables: voi-ce-les-sness. The stress falls on "ce".

What is another word for voicelessness?

Close synonyms include aphonia, whisper, whispering, susurration. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is voicelessness a common word?

voicelessness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.