muteness

English

Alternative forms

mutenesse (obsolete)

Etymology

mute +‎ -ness

Pronunciation

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Noun

muteness (usually uncountable, plural mutenesses)

The characteristic of being mute.
- 2019, Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities, Abacus (2019), page 498:
  Jamike came with a certain muteness, as if something had silenced him.

Synonyms

dumbness

Related terms

deaf-muteness

Translations

characteristic of being mute

Belarusian: немата́ f (njematá)
Bulgarian: немота́ (bg) f (nemotá)
Catalan: mudesa (ca) f
Czech: němota f
Esperanto: muteco
French: mutité (fr) f, mutisme (fr) m, aphonie (fr) f
German: Stummheit (de) f
Irish: bailbhe, balbhántaíocht f
Macedonian: немост f (nemost)
Middle English: dombenesse
Old English: dumbnes f
Polish: niemota (pl) f
Portuguese: mudez (pt) f
Romanian: muțenie (ro) f
Russian: немота́ (ru) f (nemotá)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: немост f

Roman: nemost f
Slovak: nemota f
Spanish: mudez (es) f
Ukrainian: німота́ f (nimotá)

Anagrams

tenesmus

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