Muteness

Definition: Muteness

Muteness

Noun

1. A refusal to speak when expected; "his silence about my contribution was surprising".

Date "muteness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references)

Synonym: Muteness

Synonym: silence (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Taciturnity	Noun: silence, muteness, obmutescence; taciturnity, pauciloquy, costiveness, curtness; reserve, reticence; (concealment).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Title
Books	Voicing the Void: Muteness and Memory in Holocaust Fiction (Suny Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Muteness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Muteness" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	3	202,518

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "muteness": deaf-muteness.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "muteness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		memecëri (mutism). (various references)

Arabic		‏تخفيف الصوت, ‏صمت (clamant, hold one's peace, hold one's tongue, keep mum, keep quiet, keep the ball rolling, keeping quiet, pause, pipe down, quietness, reticence, shut up, silence, still, taciturnity), ‏خرس (dry up, dumb, mutism, quiet, silence). (various references)

Bulgarian		немота (mutism), мълчание (hush, silence, still), безмълвие (silence, still). (various references)

French		mutisme (mutism), assourdissement. (various references)

German		Stummheit (dumbness, speechlessness, wordlessness). (various references)

Greek		βουβαμάρα. (various references)

Hebrew		אלמות (dumbness), אלם (dumb, dumbness, dummy, hush, mute, silence, silent, voiceless), �"ממ�" (hush, quiet, silence, still, stillness). (various references)

Hungarian		némaság (dumbness, silence). (various references)

Indonesian		kegaguan, kebisuan (silence). (various references)

Italian		mutismo (mutism, silence), mutezza (mutism, wordlessness). (various references)

Manx		tost (mute, speechless), ballooid (dumbness). (various references)

Pig Latin		utenessmay

Portuguese		mutismo (dumbness, mutism, silence), mudez (dumbness, mutism), silêncio (dead, dumbness, silence, still). (various references)

Romanian		muţenie (dumbness, mutism, silence). (various references)

Russian		немота (dumbness, mutism). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		mutavost (mutism), nemost (quiescence, quiescency, speechlessness). (various references)

Spanish		mudez (dumbness). (various references)

Thai		การไม่ออกเสียง (mute). (various references)

Turkish		sessizlik (hush, mutism, noiselessness, peace, quiescence, quiet, quietness, quietude, repose, silence, speechlessness, stillness, taciturnity), dilsizlik (dumbness, mutism). (various references)

Turkmen		lallyk. (various references)

Ukrainian		німота (dumbness, mutism, voicelessness). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự thầm lặng, sự lặng thinh (mutism, silence, speechlessness), sự câm. (various references)

Welsh		mudandod. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "muteness": mutenesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Muteness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: mereness, Mestensev, modeness, Mortenes, Mutenye, mutogens. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "muteness" (pronounced 'Mute"ness'): Abruptness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Acuteness, Adaptness, Adeptness, Adroitness, Adultness, Albiness, Alertness, Allness, Aloneness, Aloofness, Animoseness, Antiqueness, Apartness, Apertness, Aptness, Archness, Arguteness, Augustness, Austereness, Averseness, Badness, Baldness, Bareness, Baseness, Bigness, Blackness, Blandness, Blankness, Blindness, Blitheness, Blondness, Blueness, Bluffness, Bluntness, Boldness, Braveness, Briefness, brightness, Briskness, Broadness, Brownness, Brusqueness, Bruteness, Budgeness, Business, Calmness, Cavalierness. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: tenesmus.
	Words within the letters "e-e-m-n-s-s-t-u"
	-1 letter: mustees.
	-2 letters: ensues, menses, mesnes, mustee, neumes, semens, sensum, sunset, tenses, tenues, tmeses, unmeet, unsets.
	-3 letters: emeus, ensue, meets, mense, menus, mesne, metes, muses, musts, mutes, neems, nests, neume, neums, seems, semen, semes, sense, sente, smuts, stems, stums, stuns, suets, teems, teens, tense, tunes, unmet, unset.
	-4 letters: emes, emeu, emus, eses, meet, menu, mess.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-m-n-s-s-t-u"
	+1 letter: muensters.
	+2 letters: amusements, ecumenists, minuteness, multisense, mutenesses, rousements, subsegment, tenesmuses, terminuses.
	+3 letters: assuagement, bemusements, mansuetudes, menstruates, mustinesses, mutageneses, mutagenesis, securements, seducements, subbasement, subsegments, supplements, tumescences, unseemliest.
	+4 letters: assuagements, disbursement, disguisement, ecumenicists, einsteiniums, entrustments, eudaemonists, measurements, minutenesses, seminudities, smuttinesses, subbasements, ultimateness, untimeliness.
	+5 letters: detumescences, disbursements, disguisements, immutableness, impetuousness, intumescences, magnetopauses, masterfulness, meetinghouses, misadventures, momentousness, neurochemists, prematureness, readjustments, superminister, supplementals, supplementers, tremulousness, tumorigeneses, tumorigenesis, unsettlements, volunteerisms.
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