ineloquencen.
/ɪnˈɛləkwəns/ Want of eloquence; the quality of being ineloquent; (in Carlyle) the reverse of eloquence or speaking out; silence.
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the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > [noun]
stillnessc1050
silencea1225
seld-speech?c1225
taciturnityc1450
retreata1533
mum1555
silentness1573
reticence1603
reticencya1617
reservation1619
parciloquy1656
reserve1659
costiveness1792
incommunicativeness1815
mutism1824
incommunicableness1835
ineloquence1843
incommunicability1855
unspeaking1860
mumchanceness1910
mumchanciness1920
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > loss or lack of voice > [noun] > silence or not uttering
muteness1590
infancy1641
tacitness1657
ineloquence1843
tongue-tying1869
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [noun]
roughnessa1398
beggarliness1542
crabbedness1546
barbarousness1549
grossness1563
rusticity1565
barbarism1578
inconcinnity1616
ungracefulness1658
incuriosity1661
incomptness1669
uncouthness1672
unpoliteness1684
barbarity1706
inelegance1726
inelegancy1727
scabrousness1727
asperity1779
crudity1885
ineloquence1894
1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present ii. xi. 129 The Lord Abbot's eloquence is less admirable than his ineloquence, his great invaluable ‘talent of silence’!
1894 Sir H. Irving in Daily News 3 Dec. 6/7 We..feel keenly the ineloquence of finite words to express our emotions.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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