speakerlessness
English
Etymology
speakerless + -ness
Noun
speakerlessness (uncountable)
- Absence of a speaker.
- 2014, Ann Banfield, Unspeakable Sentences
- Instead of the speakerlessness of sentences with a third person SELF, what is espoused is the idea that in such sentences there is a blending of two points of view or 'voices,' […]
- 1993, Jay Parini, The Columbia History of American Poetry (page 106)
- In each, however, the ritualistic quality of the prosody (following from the genres of invocation and epitaph) conspires with other elements to push the poem toward the condition of speakerlessness.
- 2014, Ann Banfield, Unspeakable Sentences