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UK
/mjˈuːtnəs/
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NOUN
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a refusal to speak when expected
his silence about my contribution was surprising -
the condition of being unable or unwilling to speak
her muteness was a consequence of her deafness
How To Use muteness In A Sentence
- But mine was a transformation accomplished with a certain muteness and mildness and devoid of obvious tumble and tension.
- What about the hijacking of threads by halbert holmert and the muteness of TP? Think Progress » Pelosi: Congress Will Not Fund Escalation If Bush Does Not Justify It
- This muteness increases the sense of proliferation in his art.
- Boredom allowed no relief from either fatigue or muteness.
- But mine was a transformation accomplished with a certain muteness and mildness and devoid of obvious tumble and tension.
- After that display of muteness and passivity, you can only imagine a woman—one with shiny lips—steering the beast.
- Some alchemical mix of beauty, muteness and otherness. Times, Sunday Times
- her muteness was a consequence of her deafness
- Right to muteness and "leniency to those who confess their crimes" will not be mutually exclusive.
- In 19th-century New Zealand, where female self-expression, like civilization, is postulated as still being on the brink of formation, Ada's muteness is set forth as a kind of inexact metaphor for the repression of women -- an oddity and an encumbrance, like her enormous hoopskirts, but still a fact of life. Chicago Reader