muteness

• mutenesse (obsolete)

From mute +‎ -ness.

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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.

• dumbness

• deaf-muteness

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