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Definition: Mutism |
MutismNoun1. The condition of being unable or unwilling to speak. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mutism" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Inability or refusal to speak. (references) |
Medicine | Lack of the faculty of speech. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Mutism |
| Non-English Usage: "Mutism" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Romanian (mutism). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Health | Other symptoms may include dysphasia (difficulty speaking), dysarthria (poorly articulated speech), mutism (inability to speak), hypotonia (decreased muscle tone), lethargy, irritability, or malaise (a vague feeling of bodily discomfort). (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Mutism" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Mutism" is used about 4 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% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "mutism": Akinetic Mutism. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "mutism": Deaf-mutism. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
selective mutism | 158 |
mutism | 14 |
elective mutism | 12 |
akinetic mutism | 5 |
mutism selective treatment | 5 |
education mutism selective | 3 |
article mutism research selective | 2 |
mutism research selective | 2 |
child mutism selective | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "mutism"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | memecëri (muteness), heshtje (pause, quiet, quietness, quietude, reticence, silence, still, stillness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | خرس (dry up, dumb, muteness, quiet, silence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | немота (muteness), мълчаливост (taciturnity), мутизъм. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | mutismus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | mutisme (dumbness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | mutisme (muteness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Mutismus (dumbness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hallgatás (hush, silence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | mutismo (muteness, silence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 함묵증. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | utismmay mutismo (dumbness, muteness, silence). (various references) mutism, muţenie (dumbness, muteness, silence), tãcere absolutã. (various references) немота (dumbness, muteness), задержка речи. (various references) mutavost (muteness). (various references) mutismo (discreetness, discretion, reticence). (various references) stumhet. (various references) sessizlik (hush, muteness, noiselessness, peace, quiescence, quiet, quietness, quietude, repose, silence, speechlessness, stillness, taciturnity), dilsizlik (dumbness, muteness). (various references) німота (dumbness, muteness, voicelessness). (various references) trạng thái không nói ra được, tật câm sự im lặng, sự lặng thinh (muteness, silence, speechlessness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "mutism": mutisms. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "mutism" (pronounced 'Mut"ism'): Absenteeism, Anticivism, Antitheism, Aramaism, Bahaism, Bardism, Boodhism, Bossism, Boyism, Buffoonism, Burkism, Cavalierism, Chartism, Chemism, Churchism, Civism, Dashism, Deism, Frenchism, Geusdism, Jainism, Lamarckism, Lyrism, Malebranchism, Mandarinism, Neo-Lamarckism, Occultism, Old-maidism, Ophism, Opportunism, Owlism, Panslavism, Panzoism, Pasteurism, Pharisaism, Priestism, Purism, Quackism, Rantism, Red-tapism, Routinism, Saintism, Scaphism, Sclavism, Scribism, Sectism, Selfism, Sensism, Slavism, sophism. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: summit. | |
| Words within the letters "i-m-m-s-t-u" | |
-2 letters: mist, mums, must, muts, smit, smut, stum, suit, tuis. | |
-3 letters: ism, its, mim, mis, mum, mus, mut, sim, sit, sum, tis, tui, umm, uts. | |
-4 letters: is, it, mi, mm, mu, si, ti, um, us, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-m-m-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: mutisms, summits, tummies. | |
+2 letters: gummiest, gummites, manumits, mittimus, optimums, rummiest, semimute, stumming, summital, summited, summitry, yummiest. | |
+3 letters: chummiest, communist, crummiest, immatures, impostume, malemiuts, muniments, mutualism, plummiest, presummit, scummiest, slummiest, strumming, summating, summation, summative, summiteer, summiting, talmudism, timpanums. | |
+4 letters: amateurism, automatism, comminutes, communists, immixtures, immunities, imposthume, impostumes, impromptus, maumetries, miscompute, mittimuses, mutualisms, numismatic, osmeterium, prostomium, rheumatism, spermatium, stramonium, suboptimum, summations, summeriest, summertime, summiteers, summitries, talmudisms, thrummiest, traumatism, ultimatums. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 75 74 69 73 6D |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- ..- - .. ... -- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01110101 01110100 01101001 01110011 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M u t i s m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0075 0074 0069 0073 006D |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)478786758579 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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