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Meanings of voicelessness in English

Portuguese
cochicho
Catalan
xiuxiueig

Speaking softly without vibration of the vocal cords.

        cochicho
        Spanish
        afonía

        A disorder of the vocal organs that results in the loss of voice.

              afonía
              Usage of voicelessness in English
              1
              This display-renderedmore uncouth by its voicelessness-revoltedthe æsthetic sensibilities of Helwyse.
              Idolatry: A Romance
              2
              Each day his voicelessness grew louder, built in me a coarse, deserted city.
              A monster's notes
              3
              Great clamour was for one moment heard by them, and then a rushing voicelessness.
              Vittoria — Volume 4
              4
              He speaks for a majority that has no hope of redemption from poverty and voicelessness.
              The South African
              5
              Sky full of clouds, of voicelessness.
              A monster's notes
              6
              He had that singular facility with any instrument which is sometimes given to musical persons in recompense for voicelessness.
              The Grey Lady
              7
              If I could hear my voice move outside my mind... but even now this voicelessness, and all these years later.
              A monster's notes
              8
              Its broken tones, striving and struggling, almost rising at times into a shriek, seemed of all things to complain of its own voicelessness.
              Confession; Or, The Blind Heart. A Domestic Story
              Translations for voicelessness
              Catalan
              xiuxiueig
              Spanish
              afonía
              Voicelessness through the time