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Definitions: OBMUTESCENCE |
OBMUTESCENCENoun1. A keeping silent or mute. 2. A becoming dumb; loss of speech. |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
| 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. | ||
| 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) |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 42 4D 55 54 45 53 43 45 4E 43 45 |
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