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Five Shells on a Slab of Stone (1696) by Adriaen Coorte

Illustration: Laocoön and His Sons ("Clamores horrendos" detail), photo by Marie-Lan Nguyen

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Silence is a relative or total lack of sound. An environment with sound below 20 decibels is considered quiet or silent.

Gestures of silence

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• Forefinger before lips[1], laying vertically one's forefinger across the lips is a gesture meaning silence

Visual representation of silence

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• Painters of silence

Namesakes

• "It's Oh So Quiet" by Bjork
• Le Silence [3] by Odilon Redon (1840–1916)
• The Silence (Fuseli) [4]

See also

• Anechoic chamber
• Background noise
• Gestures of silence
• Humming
• List of silent musical compositions
• Monastic silence
• Murke's Collected Silences
• Omertà
• Retreat for the religious meaning of silence.
• Silencer (disambiguation)
• Silent film
• Silent letter for a letter that does not correspond to any sound in a word's pronunciation.
• Sunshine and Silent Rooms
• 4′33″
• Vow of Silence