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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Voice·less, a.
 1. Having no voice, utterance, or vote; silent; mute; dumb.
 I live and die unheard,
 With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a sword.   --Byron.
 2. Phon. Not sounded with voice; as, a voiceless consonant; surd.
 Voiceless stop Phon., a consonant made with no audible sound except in the transition to or from another sound; a surd mute, as p, t, k.
 -- Voice*less*ly, adv. -- Voice*less*ness, n.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 voicelessness
      n : a disorder of the vocal organs that results in the loss of
          voice [syn: aphonia]