voicelessness


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Synonyms for voicelessness

a disorder of the vocal organs that results in the loss of voice

speaking softly without vibration of the vocal cords

having no voice in the management or control of affairs

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Patients stated that when communication boards were used effectively, the impact was crucial in reducing negative effects of voicelessness (Finke et al., 2008).
Instead of promoting voicelessness and powerlessness, the Council can and should launch an independent probe, engage in fact-checking, secondary and primary source verifications, and grapple with the monster and its kingdom of terror and violence for the scale of war crimes, brutality, and mendacity.
As explained by Pardosi et al., [23], that the people's voices are not represented (voicelessness and powerlessness) in the decision-making process when decisions are greatly influenced life / well-being.
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"Jonathan and I talked one night about voicelessness, about how we live in an age where there is so much info out there but there is still this element of voicelessness around us all the time.
Adams M (2013) Voicelessness. In: Teo T (ed.) Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology.
What Webster dramatizes in this poem is thus not simply the powerful voice of Eulalie, but, ultimately, her voicelessness, made visible by Webster's insistence that Eulalie is not surrounded or "flanked" by auditors, but speaks alone, in the absence of the auditor whose absence is the sole guarantor of her power to speak thus: with self-command and impunity, the worst of truths.
It seems that voicelessness is in no language a primary underlying feature that would be completely independent of other vocalic features and/or of immediate phonetic context (Kuznetsova 2015).
As can be seen, the characteristic features of the initial and medial realizations are voicelessness and a high energy release, and in the final position a significantly longer consonant with final aspiration.
That radicalism occurs not when a young man suddenly discovers tough religious sermons, or connects with Internet recruiters, but rather after years of slipping into conditions of poverty, hopelessness, vulnerability, alienation, humiliation, occupation, colonization, joblessness, subjugation, voicelessness, exploitation and other numbing conditions that all -- all -- result from the consequences of policies that governments pursue.
I became trapped in a vicious plot of voicelessness, violence and guilt so brutal and yet so familiar....
Simply put, the performance offered the spectator the opportunity to speak publicly or not, to risk or not, to resist voicelessness or to witness that resistance.