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SILENTNESS

Definition: SILENTNESS

SILENTNESS

Noun

1. State of being silent; silence.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SILENTNESS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1798. (references)


Modern Translation: SILENTNESS

Language Translations for "SILENTNESS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

silence (silence, silencing, silent). (various references)

   

German

  

Stille (calm, calmness, hush, inactivity, peacefulness, placidity, quiescence, quiet, quietness, seclusion, secrecy, silence, silent, still, stillness, tranquillity). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σιωπηλότησ, σιωπηλότητα (reticence). (various references)

   

Italian

  

calma (calm, calmness, placidity, quietude, sedateness, silence, silent, smoothness, steady, stillness, temper). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ilentnesssay

   

Russian 

  

тишина (calm, calmness, peace, quiet, quietness, quietude, silence, still). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sosiego (appeasement, quiet, quietude, silence, silent). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: SILENTNESS

Derivations

Words beginning with "SILENTNESS": silentnesses. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "SILENTNESS"

Words rhyming with "SILENTNESS" (pronounced 'Si"lent*ness'): Abjectedness, Abjectness, Ableness, Abominableness, Abortiveness, Abruptness, Absentness, Absoluteness, Absorptiveness, Abstemiousness, Abstersiveness, Abstractedness, Abstractiveness, Abstractness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Abusiveness, Acceptableness, Accessariness, Accessoriness, Accidentalness, Accommodableness, Accommodateness, Accurateness, Accustomedness, Acidness, Acquaintedness, Acquisitiveness, Acrimoniousness, Activeness, Actualness, Acuteness, Adaptedness, Adaptiveness, Adaptness, Addictedness, Addle-patedness, Adeptness, Adequateness, Adhesiveness, Admirableness, Adorableness, Adroitness, Adultness, Advantageousness, Adventurousness, Adverseness, Advisable-ness, Advisedness, Affableness. (additional references)

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Anagrams: SILENTNESS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-i-l-n-n-s-s-s-t"

-1 letter: sentinels.

-2 letters: sentinel, sestines, setlines, tennises.

-3 letters: enisles, enlists, ensiles, innless, intense, lenient, lessens, linnets, lisente, listees, listens, nestles, netless, seniles, sennets, sennits, sessile, sestine, setline, silents, sinless, telesis, tennies, tensile, tieless, tinsels.

-4 letters: elints, elites, enisle, enlist, ensile, inlets, insets, islets, istles, lenses, lenten, lessen, linens, linnet, listee, listen, nesses, nestle, seines, seises.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-i-l-n-n-s-s-s-t"
 

+1 letter: tensionless.

 

+2 letters: flintinesses, inessentials, pliantnesses, silentnesses, sterlingness.

 

+3 letters: essentialness, initialnesses, lastingnesses, lengthinesses, liltingnesses, nonessentials, pointlessness, saintlinesses, valiantnesses.

 

+4 letters: fleetingnesses, gelatinousness, insatiableness, knightlinesses, licentiousness, militantnesses, motionlessness, pretensionless, rationalnesses, sensationalise, slatternliness, sterlingnesses, tangiblenesses, tranquilnesses, untimelinesses.

 

+5 letters: bountifulnesses, clandestineness, emotionlessness, essentialnesses, everlastingness, fanaticalnesses, identicalnesses, inscrutableness, insensibilities, inviolatenesses, longsightedness, nucleosynthesis, painterlinesses, plaintivenesses, plentifulnesses, pointlessnesses, sensationalised, sensationalises, sensationalizes, sentimentalises, sentimentalisms, sentimentalists, thinkablenesses, undutifulnesses, unearthlinesses, unhealthinesses, unsightlinesses, voluntarinesses.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SILENTNESS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 49 4C 45 4E 54 4E 45 53 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    ..    .-..    .    -.    -    -.    .    ...    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01001001 01001100 01000101 01001110 01010100 01001110 01000101 01010011 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#73 &#76 &#69 &#78 &#84 &#78 &#69 &#83 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0049 004C 0045 004E 0054 004E 0045 0053 0053

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53434639485448395353

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Non-English Dictionaries with "SILENTNESS"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

French

dictionnaire, définition, traductionfrançais, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francese, французский, francés

German

Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definitionallemand, "ερμανός, tedesco, немецкий, alemán

Greek

λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφρασηgrec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, greco, греческий, грек, griego

Italian

dizionario, definizione, traduzioneitalien, italienisch, Ιταλός, italiano, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский

Russian

словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещениеRusse, russisch, Ρώσος, russo, русский, ruso

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducciónespagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spagnolo, испанский, español

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationanglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, inglese, английский, inglés
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Derivations
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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