mutisme
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Formed from Latin mutus + -isme.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /my.tism/ ~ /my.tizm/
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- Hyphenation: mu‧tisme
Noun
[edit]mutisme m (plural mutismes)
- mutism, aphasia
- muteness
- stubborn or obstinate silence
- 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […][1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:
- Dans la fréquentation des animaux, elle avait pris leur mutisme et leur placidité.
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Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “mutisme”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012