muteness
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6.8
- noun
- /ˈmjuːtnəs/
:
mudez
- Marianna's muteness encourages and excuses one of her most subversive activities—her predilection for reading.
Examples
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The poet seeks refuge in muteness.
Academic text (2005) -
My husband said my muteness does not bother him.
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Her muteness came not because there was too little to say, but because there was too much.
Academic text (2013) -
Never think any more about your mother, her pain, and her muteness.
Fiction book (1997) -
Why can we not allow their voices to be heard rather than crushing them into muteness?
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We were silent, and somehow that silence healed my blank muteness of the night before.
Fiction book (2000) -
Puttermesser sat, a pariah in her muteness, a simpleton.
Fiction book (1997) -
But in the last days of February, he was attacked by an impenetrable muteness from which I could not coax him, no matter how hard I tried.
Fiction book (1994) -
The husband's inner monologues alternate with the wife's in the novel; however, interestingly enough, their mutual muteness doesn't interfere with their harmonious coexistence.
Fiction book (1998) -
Her muteness during the meeting made everyone curious about her thoughts.
Synonyms
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2.0
A period with no sound or speech
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9.2
A condition where a person does not speak because of a physical or mental problem
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5.5
Not able to speak because you feel very shocked or upset
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5.3
Being unable to speak because of a physical problem or by choice
Antonyms
Compounds
How Silent
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Muteness comes from mute, which comes from the Latin mutus meaning 'silent', and the ending -ness meaning 'state'. So, muteness is the 'state of being silent', whether because someone cannot or chooses not to speak.