muteness
131taciturnity — n 1. reticence, uncommunicativeness, unconversableness, reserve, shyness; quietness, silence, silentness, tacitness, speechlessness, voicelessness, muteness; distantness, aloofness, stand offishness, unsociability, unsociableness. 2. dourness,… …
132mute — I UK [mjuːt] / US [mjut] adjective 1) a) not speaking, or not willing to speak She gazed at him in mute appeal. b) old fashioned not able to speak 2) linguistics a letter that is mute is not pronounced Derived words: mutely adverb muteness noun… …
