NONVOCAL Synonyms: 34 Similar and Opposite Words

nonvocal

adjective

Definition of nonvocal

as in voiceless

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Recent Examples of nonvocal In 2020 scientists compared phylogenies of around 1,800 vocal and nonvocal species and estimated that acoustic communication arose roughly 100 million to 200 million years ago in association with nocturnal activity. — Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 25 Oct. 2022 In recent years, scientists have tested various species and found evidence that nonvocal learners such as sea lions and bonobos have rhythm too. — Quanta Magazine, 22 Mar. 2016

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In ‘American Hostage,’ Jon Hamm explores why those who feel voiceless turn to violence.

— Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2026
The focus of academics swung to class, race, and gender, to giving voice to the voiceless and documenting injustices.

— Yoni Appelbaum, The Atlantic, 8 June 2026

Definition of voiceless

Adjective

The cloud was blank and inarticulate, a monolith with no secrets to reveal to any of its human witnesses.

— Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026
Just as between them William James and Michael Oakeshott told us that there is no such thing as unmediated experience, so, surely, there is no such thing as inarticulate thought.

— Richard Lansdown, The New York Review of Books, 25 June 2026

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nonvoluntary

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