OBMUTESCENCE

  

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OBMUTESCENCE

Definitions: OBMUTESCENCE

OBMUTESCENCE

Noun

1. A keeping silent or mute.

2. A becoming dumb; loss of speech.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: OBMUTESCENCE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Aphony

Noun: aphony, aphonia; dumbness; Adjective: obmutescence; absence of voice, want of voice; dysphony; cacoepy; silence; (taciturnity); raucity; harsh voice; , unmusical voice; ; falsetto, "childish treble mute"; dummy.

Taciturnity

Noun: silence, muteness, obmutescence; taciturnity, pauciloquy, costiveness, curtness; reserve, reticence; (concealment).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translations: OBMUTESCENCE

Language Translations for "OBMUTESCENCE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Romanian

  

tãcere încãpãţânatã. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

уперте мовчання. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự lầm lì im lặng. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "OBMUTESCENCE"

Words rhyming with "OBMUTESCENCE" (pronounced 'Ob`mu*tes"cence'): Accrescence, Acquiescence, Adolescence, Albescence, Arborescence, Calescence, Calorescence, Candescence, Circumjacence, Coalescence, Cognoscence, Concrescence, Crescence, Decence, Dehiscence, Deliquescence, Delitescence, florescence, Frondescence, Fructescence, incalescence, incandescence, inflorescence, intumescence, iridescence, juvenescence, luminescence, Nonacquiescence, Obsolescence, Opalescence, Petrescence, Phosphorescence, Pubescence, Putrescence, Ramollescence, Reflorescence, Rejuvenescence, reminiscence, renascence, Resipiscence, Revalescence, Revirescence, Rubescence, senescence, Spinescence, Spumescence, Supercrescence, Superexcrescence, tumescence, Virescence. (additional references)

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Anagrams: OBMUTESCENCE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-c-c-e-e-e-m-n-o-s-t-u"

-2 letters: tumescence.

-4 letters: tubenose.

-5 letters: becomes, boneset, bounces, buncoes, butenes, cements, cenotes, centums, cobnuts, combust, consume, contuse, costume, emeutes, entombs, numbest, obscene, outseen, subteen, subtone, tonemes, umbones.

 Words containing the letters "b-c-c-e-e-e-m-n-o-s-t-u"
 

+5 letters: triboluminescence.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: OBMUTESCENCE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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