silentness

noun

Definition of silentnessnext
as in silence

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  1. silence
  2. quiet
  3. still
Noun
  • Sometimes someone just wants to be heard and the best response is that of silence.
    Stephanie Innes, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024
  • State of play: 79 of about 119 countries or territories with elections in 2023 and 2024 had pre-election silence periods, per Staffan Darnolf, a senior global adviser at the International Foundation for Electoral Systems.
    April Rubin, Axios, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of silence
Noun
  • Returning to the island at the end of a busy day and experiencing a rare quiet that’s almost impossible to to find in New York—even for someone who’s lived there for over a decade.
    Laura Parker, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Yaeji's With a Hammer takes one idea—namely, the volcano of rage that bubbled up inside the Korean-American artist during the quiet of the pandemic—and studies it from every angle.
    Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024
Definition of quiet
Noun
  • Video stills show Phoenix police holding Michael Kenyon on the ground.
    Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Not tourist snaps so much as stills from a spy movie that would never be made: my own personal version of John le Carré’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
    Chris Wallace, Travel + Leisure, 16 Oct. 2024
Definition of still
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“Silentness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/silentness. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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