speechlessness in English

noun

['speech·less·ness || 'spɪːtʃnɪs]

temporary inability to speak due to a strong emotion; muteness, inability to speak

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1. This is essential to overcome our speechlessness and the separation provoked by rival political forces.

2. Aphonia ENT Complete speechlessness resulting from an inability to produce normal sounds due to organic–eg, laryngeal disease or mental cause.

3. Aphonia (n.) in pathology, "want of voice, loss of voice through some physical condition," 1778, from medical Latin aphonia, from Greek aphonia "speechlessness," abstract noun from aphonos "voiceless," from a-"not, without" (see a-(3)) + phone "voice," from PIE root *bha-(2) "to speak, tell, say" + abstract noun ending (see -ia).Englished form Aphony is attested from 1680s.