"muteness" meaning in English

See muteness in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-muteness.wav Forms: mutenesses [plural]
Etymology: From 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), mutismo [masculine] (Spanish), німота́ (nimotá) [feminine] (Ukrainian)

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