mute
adjective
silent; refraining from speech or utterance.
muteness
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a word derived from
mute.
Example Sentences
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Against this thick muteness, my ears strained to listen for something, anything.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2021
Recently I wrote a book about those things, Recollections Of My Non-Existence, about the muteness of my formative years.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 29, 2020
The Chinese-American writer Weike Wang’s short story “Omakase,” published this year in The New Yorker, captures this cultural muteness as well.
From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2018
It later became the habitual muteness of the acquiescent.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 5, 2018
I don’t know what caused the transformation, why suddenly I could engage with the great thinkers of the past, rather than revere them to the point of muteness.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
