speechlessness

In Homer there is a term for speechlessness as a defect not a transient emotional state, and in Oedipus at Colonus Sophocles uses a word meaning “privation of voice.”

Knotted Tongues Benson Bobrick 1995

In Homer there is a term for speechlessness as a defect not a transient emotional state, and in Oedipus at Colonus Sophocles uses a word meaning “privation of voice.”

Knotted Tongues Benson Bobrick 1995

I was shocked into speechlessness, which is rare for me.

Propeller Most Popular Stories 2009

Then too he learns to suspect that when he has tried to be impressive, he has often only succeeded in being priggish; and the result is that he falls into a kind of speechlessness, comforting himself, as he sits mute and awkward, unduly elongated, and with unaccountable projections of limb and feature, that if only other people were a little less self-absorbed, had the gift of perceiving hidden worth and real character, and could pierce a little below the surface, they would realise what reserves of force and tenderness lay beneath the heavy shapelessness of which he is still conscious.

At Large Arthur Christopher Benson 1893

'speechlessness' of sensation, its inability to make any

Meaning of Truth William James 1876

She was speechless, and believe me, this is not a woman given to speechlessness.

Charlie Carillo: It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't a Diamond Ring Charlie Carillo 2011

When I responded with speechlessness, he explained that his father, as a young man, wanted passionately to be a newspaper reporter, but couldn't interview people because he stuttered.

'Gnomeo': A Bard's Garden of Delights Joe Morgenstern 2011

She was speechless, and believe me, this is not a woman given to speechlessness.

Charlie Carillo: It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't a Diamond Ring Charlie Carillo 2011

The win put the Cardinals within two victories of their 11th World Championship, but it was Pujols's performance that pushed the players and coaches who witnessed it to the point of speechlessness, something that doesn't happen very often with a group that tries to avoid overstatement.

Pujols Hits Three Homers in Cards' Rout Matthew Futterman 2011

She was speechless, and believe me, this is not a woman given to speechlessness.

Charlie Carillo: It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't a Diamond Ring Charlie Carillo 2011