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speakerlessness

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

Absence of a speaker.

uncountable

Examples

“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,' […]”
“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.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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