speechlessness

speechlessness

noun

Definition of SPEECHLESSNESS

incapacity for or restraint from speaking <the speechlessness of our cat never seemed so frustrating as the time that it was seriously sick>

Synonyms dumbness, muteness, speechlessness, stillness

Related Words inarticulacy, inarticulateness, voicelessness; reserve, reticence, reticency, taciturnity

Near Antonyms communication, speaking, talking; eloquence, fluency, volubility; chattiness, garrulousness, loquaciousness, loquacity, talkativeness, talkiness; verboseness, verbosity, windiness, wordiness