Crossword clues for speechlessness
speechlessness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Speechless \Speech"less\, a.
Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech.
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Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent.
Speechless with wonder, and half dead with fear.
--Addison. [1913 Webster] -- Speech"less*ly, adv. -- Speech"less*ness, n.
Wiktionary
n. The state of being speechless.
WordNet
n. the property of being speechless
Usage examples of "speechlessness".
She tried employing her unperfected ladylike sniff to cover her speechlessness.
Silence fell, or speechlessness, as the breezes swept the odors emitted by the Eldest and her sisters downdrift from the gallery, through the rest of the building, and back, softer echoes of their words, and away again, ever diluted, ever more blended with background scents, never completely vanished.
Wade was terrified to speechlessness by the shelling, and even when lulls came he clung to Scarlett’s skirts, too terrified to cry.
Poole, regretting, as so often in the past, that gushing loquacity with which he overcompensates a shyness that, left to itself, would reduce him almost to speechlessness.