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The property of making no noise
Answer for the clue "The property of making no noise ", 13 letters:
noiselessness
Word definitions for noiselessness in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. the quality or state of being noiseless; quiet or hush
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the property of making no noise
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Noiseless \Noise"less\, a. Making, or causing, no noise or bustle; without noise; silent; as, the noiseless foot of time. So noiseless would I live. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] -- Noise"less*ly , adv. -- Noise"less*ness , n.
Usage examples of noiselessness.
The feet themselves were heavily padded and nailless, which fact had also contributed to the noiselessness of their approach, and, in common with a multiplicity of legs, is a characteristic feature of the fauna of Mars.
Theos now began to notice that there was a strange noiselessness in their movements--that the whole CORTEGE appeared to be environed by a magic circle of silence--and that the very night itself seemed breathlessly listening in entranced awe to some unlanguaged warning from the gods invisible.
He hurried his pace as he spoke, and glided along with such a curious, stealthy noiselessness that by and by Theos began dubiously to wonder whether after all he were a real personage or a phantom?
The noiselessness of its departure from the scabbard clearly surprised Go Nogo ever so slightly, but he covered it deftly.
Silence would have been a terrible din compared to the sudden soft implosion of noiselessness that hit the wizards with the force of an exploding dandelion clock.