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    Soundlessness is the noun: the state of there being no sound at all. It is rare and heavily literary — much rarer than 'silence', which is the ordinary word for the same idea and the one you should normally use. So why does the word exist? Because 'silence' has grown extra meanings — a person can keep silence, a government can be met with silence, silence can be a choice or a refusal. 'Soundlessness' has none of that. It is physical: no sound , nothing to hear. A writer picks it when they want the bare fact of no sound, stripped of any human meaning, or when 'silence' would sound too dramatic. You will meet it in descriptions of deep snow, of space, of a place after a machine stops. It is uncountable and takes no article: you say 'the soundlessness of the room', not 'a soundlessness'.

    無聲的狀態、寂然無聲。這個字很少用,一般直接說 silence(寂靜)就好。

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組成sound + -less (without) + -ness (the state of being). So: the state of being without sound.

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原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

soundlessnessnoun

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    The state or condition of being soundless.

    • A stealthy glance below revealed no guard in sight, and so with the quickness and the soundlessness of cats we dropped together into the main cabin of the submarine.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。