Difference between speechless and dumbness
Definitions
adjective
- temporarily incapable of speaking
Examples
I. ii.188 (19,2) [There is a prone and speechless dialect] I can scarcely tell what signification to give to the word _prone_.
In chantries unrehearsed we'd wow the votarists and serenade the friary to panting ecstasies while summoned to kingly chambers we branked the troubadours, turning the sovereign mind to heaven, the courtiers left speechless with neglect...
The shock of the discovery rendered him speechless.
Definitions
noun
- the quality of being mentally slow and limited
Examples
Prolong frequent masturbation damage the kidney , weaken the kidney and cause dumbness to real sex.
If it were solely a matter of the site blooper, then the error might be put down to dumbness and naivety.
And you can see this kind of dumbness coming through in this floor speech calling for a “spending freeze”:
