Difference between Silences and Hush

SILENCES vs HUSH: NOUN

Wash by removing particles
Run water over the ground to erode (soil), revealing the underlying strata and valuable minerals
Become quiet or still; fall silent
Cause to be quiet or not talk
Become quiet or quieter
To become quiet
To make quiet

To appease; to allay; to calm; to soothe.
To still; to silence; to calm; to make quiet; to repress the noise or clamor of.
To procure silence concerning; to suppress; to keep secret.

Fall silent
Become quiet or still
To reduce to silence; make still or quiet; check or suppress the sound of.
To appease; allay; calm, as commotion or agitation.
In mining, to clear off (the soil and surface dirt), in order to expose the bed-rock, so that it can be ascertained whether there are indications of a vein or metalliferous deposit.
To be still; be silent or quiet; make no noise.
Forbear; be still; hist; attend.
Silent; still; quiet.

Moans, Mutes, Pauses, Soliloquies, Muffles, Hush up, Burke, Still, Shut up, Muteness, Quieten, Secretiveness, Secrecy, Quiet, Hush

Shhh, Calm, Softly, Silent, Shush, Quiesce, Pipe down, Quiet down, Hush up, Still, Shut up, Stillness, Quieten, Quiet, Silence

Threnody, Quaver, Bursts, Cacophonic, Impassivity, Shrilling, Moans, Muffles, Hush up, Burke, Still, Quieten, Secrecy, Quiet, Hush

Gently, Shhh, Calm, Softly, Silent, Shush, Quiet down, Quiesce, Pipe down, Hush up, Still, Stillness, Quieten, Quiet, Silence

But the silences that punctuate speech are not empty.
Is love this safety I feel in our silences?
Balinese seaside village with all its sounds and silences.
At least now there wont be any awkward silences.
The music was largely to fill silences in conversation.
Carve out explicit expectations and lean into awkward silences.
Delvile conveniently silences Cecilia when she sees her wavering.
You should avoid silences in the patient interview.
PC and silences all but critical security alerts.
Although I am not inclined to promote long silences early in counseling, there is value in not jumping in too soon when silences occur.

Ten minutes after he posted his note, three people called me up, each asking, "I thought you were keeping this hush-hush.
So then they had to work together to keep everything hush, hush.
In bookstores, I just passed by the books, seeing Hush Hush in a display.
Rani in a hush hush wedding tied the knot with her long time beau, Aditya Chopra.
But under the radar hush hush talk like in taxi cabs and with relatives.
Vang Pao's support for a Lao takeover was hardly hush-hush.
When you talk about chemicals and testing it becomes hush hush.
Things were kept a lot more hush hush back then.
Thai street food and hush hush supper clubs.
Trump called Zelensky and said keep it hush, hush.