speakerlessness

English

Etymology

speakerless +‎ -ness

Noun

speakerlessness (uncountable)

1. 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.