Silence
Silence is the lack of audible sound or presence of sounds of very low intensity. By analogy, the word silence can also refer to any absence of communication, including in media other than speech. Silence is also used as total communication, in reference to non verbal communication and spiritual connection. Silence also refers to no sounds uttered by anybody in a room or area. Silence is an important factor in many cultural spectacles, as in rituals.
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More definitions of "silence":
- (noun): The absence of sound.
Example: "He needed silence in order to sleep"
Synonyms: quiet
- (noun): The trait of keeping things secret.
Synonyms: secrecy, secretiveness
- (verb): Keep from expression, for example by threats or pressure.
Example: "All dissenters were silenced when the dictator assumed power"
- (verb): Cause to be quiet or not talk.
Example: "Please silence the children in the church!"
Synonyms: hush, quieten, still, shut up, hush up
- (noun): The state of being silent (as when no one is speaking).
Example: "There was a shocked silence"; "he gestured for silence"
Famous quotes containing the word silence:
“Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“I shook off the sweat and the sun. I understood that I had destroyed the balance of the day, the exceptional silence of a beach where I had been happy. Then I shot four more times at an inert body which the bullets penetrated without appearing so. And it was like four brief knocks that I struck on the door of misfortune.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
“There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)