Word Meanings - SILENTNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

State of being silent; silence.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SILENTNESS)

• Reticence
• Reserve
• silentness
• refrain
• repressiveness

Related words: (words related to SILENTNESS)

• RESERVE
  1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak. 2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen.
• REFRAINMENT
  Act of refraining.
• RESERVEE
  One to, or for, whom anything is reserved; -- contrasted with reservor.
• RETICENCE
  A figure by which a person really speaks of a thing while he makes a show as if he would say nothingon the subject. (more info) 1. The quality or state of being reticent, or keeping silence; the state of holding one's tonque; refraining to speak
• SILENTNESS
  State of being silent; silence.
• REFRAINER
  One who refrains.
• RESERVER
  One who reserves.
• RESERVE CITY
  In the national banking system of the United States, any of certain cities in which the national banks are required (U. S. Rev. Stat. sec. 5191) to keep a larger reserve than the minimum required of all other banks. The banks in certain of the
• REFRAIN
  L. refrenare; influenced by OF. refraindre to restrain, moderate, fr. LL. refrangere, for L. refringere to break up, break . L. refrenare is fr. pref. re- back + frenum bridle; cf. Skr. dh to 1. To hold back; to restrain; to keep within prescribed
• RESERVED
  1. Kept for future or special use, or for an exigency; as, reserved troops; a reserved seat in a theater. 2. Restrained from freedom in words or actions; backward, or cautious, in communicating one's thoughts and feelings; not free or frank. To
• UNRESERVED
  Not reserved; not kept back; not withheld in part; unrestrained. -- Un`re*serv"ed*ly, adv. -- Un`re*serv"ed*ness, n.
• PRESERVER
  1. One who, or that which, preserves, saves, or defends, from destruction, injury, or decay; esp., one who saves the life or character of another. Shak. 2. One who makes preserves of fruit. Game preserver. See under Game.
• LIFE-PRESERVER
  An apparatus, made in very various forms, and of various materials, for saving one from drowning by buoying up the body while in the water. -- Life"-pre*serv`ing, a.
• PRESERVE
  1. To keep or save from injury or destruction; to guard or defend from evil, harm, danger, etc.; to protect. O Lord, thou preserved man and beast. Ps. xxxvi. 6. Now, good angels preserve the king. Shak. 2. To save from decay by the use of some
• UNRESERVE
  Absence of reverse; frankness; freedom of communication. T. Warton.