"muteness" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-muteness.wav [US] Forms: mutenesses [plural]
Etymology: mute + -ness Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|mute|ness}} mute + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|-|+}} muteness (usually uncountable, plural mutenesses)
  1. The characteristic of being mute. Tags: uncountable, usually Synonyms: dumbness, mutenesse [obsolete] Related terms: deaf-muteness Translations (characteristic of being mute): немата́ (njematá) [feminine] (Belarusian), немота́ (nemotá) [feminine] (Bulgarian), mudesa [feminine] (Catalan), němota [feminine] (Czech), muteco (Esperanto), mutité [feminine] (French), mutisme [masculine] (French), aphonie [feminine] (French), Stummheit [feminine] (German), bailbhe (Irish), balbhántaíocht [feminine] (Irish), немост (nemost) [feminine] (Macedonian), dombenesse (Middle English), dumbnes [feminine] (Old English), niemota [feminine] (Polish), mudez [feminine] (Portuguese), muțenie [feminine] (Romanian), немота́ (nemotá) [feminine] (Russian), немост [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), nemost [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), nemota [feminine] (Slovak), mudez [feminine] (Spanish), німота́ (nimotá) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-muteness-en-noun-dX4OHz4r Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ness

Inflected forms

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            "feminine"
          ],
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          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "characteristic of being mute",
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        },
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          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "characteristic of being mute",
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          ],
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          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "nemost",
          "sense": "characteristic of being mute",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "немост"
        },
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          "code": "enm",
          "lang": "Middle English",
          "sense": "characteristic of being mute",
          "word": "dombenesse"
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          "code": "ang",
          "lang": "Old English",
          "sense": "characteristic of being mute",
          "tags": [
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          ],
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "characteristic of being mute",
          "tags": [
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          "code": "pt",
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          "sense": "characteristic of being mute",
          "tags": [
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          "lang": "Ukrainian",
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      "sense": "characteristic of being mute",
      "tags": [
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      ],
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    },
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      "sense": "characteristic of being mute",
      "tags": [
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      "sense": "characteristic of being mute",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "characteristic of being mute",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Stummheit"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "characteristic of being mute",
      "word": "bailbhe"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "characteristic of being mute",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "balbhántaíocht"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "nemost",
      "sense": "characteristic of being mute",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
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    },
    {
      "code": "enm",
      "lang": "Middle English",
      "sense": "characteristic of being mute",
      "word": "dombenesse"
    },
    {
      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "characteristic of being mute",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "dumbnes"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "characteristic of being mute",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "niemota"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "characteristic of being mute",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mudez"
    },
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      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "characteristic of being mute",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "muțenie"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "nemotá",
      "sense": "characteristic of being mute",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "немота́"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "characteristic of being mute",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
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      "word": "немост"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "characteristic of being mute",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "nemost"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "characteristic of being mute",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "nemota"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "characteristic of being mute",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mudez"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "nimotá",
      "sense": "characteristic of being mute",
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