muteness

English

Alternative forms

• mutenesse (obsolete)

Etymology

mute +‎ -ness

Pronunciation

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Noun

muteness (usually uncountable, plural mutenesses)

1. 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)

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