ちんもく
reticence, silence
Everything sinks and nobody says a word, and it goes on long enough to become a thing in its own right. Chin ちん down over the mocha もく, and not one of them speaks: ちんもく.
無言 むごん is simply saying nothing. 沈黙 is a silence with weight, the sort that falls.
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