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Definition: SILENTNESS |
SILENTNESSNoun1. State of being silent; silence. |
Date "SILENTNESS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1798. (references) |
| 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 тишина (calm, calmness, peace, quiet, quietness, quietude, silence, still). (various references) sosiego (appeasement, quiet, quietude, silence, silent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SILENTNESS": silentnesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| 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) |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 49 4C 45 4E 54 4E 45 53 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .. .-.. . -. - -. . ... ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01001001 01001100 01000101 01001110 01010100 01001110 01000101 01010011 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S I L E N T N E S S |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53434639485448395353 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francese, французский, francés |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | allemand, "ερμανός, tedesco, немецкий, alemán |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, greco, греческий, грек, griego |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, italiano, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, russo, русский, ruso |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spagnolo, испанский, español |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, inglese, английский, inglés |
| 1. Definition 2. Translations: Modern 3. Derivations 4. Rhymes | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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