mutedness

Noun

mutedness (uncountable)

1. The state or quality of being muted.
   • I fix on a street near a cemetery, beside an avenue of trees, and that street contains in its secret, the only key to those late afternoons, the surprise of Théreze Lamarck in the city, when upon arriving from Lescar she converts, rapidly, the meadows of the castle into pavements symmetrical...1967, Juan Ventura Agudiez, The Afternoons of Thérèze Lamarck, page 43
   • It is also about the mutedness of the monasteries' awareness of the wider society of the Old Regime.2001, Elizabeth Rapley, A Social History of the Cloister: Daily Life in the Teaching Monasteries of the Old Regime, page 258