Voicelessness
CONSONANT PRONOUNCED WITHOUT THE LARYNX VIBRATING
Unvoiced; Voiceless consonant; Unvoiced consonant; Voiceless vowel; Voiceless; Voiceless consonants; Voiceless sound; Unvoiced sound
In linguistics, voicelessness is the property of sounds being pronounced without the larynx vibrating. Phonologically, it is a type of phonation, which contrasts with other states of the larynx, but some object that the word phonation implies voicing and that voicelessness is the lack of phonation.