soundlessness en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree English soundless Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English soundlessness From soundless + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The state or condition of being soundless.
A stealthy glance below revealed no guard in sight, and so with the quickness and the soundlessness of cats we dropped together into the main cabin of the submarine.
1913 January–May, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Gods of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as chapter XII, in The Gods of Mars, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., September 1918, →OCLC, page 186:
Relateds
soundless · sound · soundlessly
Synonyms
silence (state of soundless) · noiselessness (state of soundless)
Translations (11)
pl bezdźwięczność (state or condition of being without sound) · ru беззву́чие (state or condition of being without sound) · hi सन्नाटा (state or condition of being without sound) · mi haumūmutanga (state or condition of being without sound) · pl bezgłośność (state or condition of being without sound) · nn lydlausheit (state or condition of being without sound) · de Geräuschlosigkeit (state or condition of being without sound) · nn ljodlausheit (state or condition of being without sound) · nb lydaushet (state or condition of being without sound) · nb lydløshet (state or condition of being without sound) · de Lautlosigkeit (state or condition of being without sound)