deaf-mute
adjective
unable to hear and speak.
deaf-mutism
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a word derived from
deaf-mute.
Example Sentences
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That same year, the festival circuit saw a markedly similar film structured around deaf-mutism – albeit to slightly lesser results, the Antz to Don’t Breathe’s A Bug’s Life.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 25, 2018
But so-called congenital deaf-mutism is actually a misnomer because inborn defects of the vocal cords that make speech impossible are almost unknown.
From Time Magazine Archive
It thus resembles congenital cataract, deaf-mutism, the susceptibility to tuberculous infection, etc.
From The Task of Social Hygiene by Havelock Ellis
Where deaf-mutism exists it seems to be intensified by consanguinity, but where it is not hereditary it is not caused by consanguinity.
From Consanguineous Marriages in the American Population by George B. Louis Arner
Moreover, Meckel has found that deaf-mutism is more frequently met with in flour-mills than elsewhere.
From Anecdotes & Incidents of the Deaf and Dumb by W. R. (William Robert) Roe
