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muteness

muteness noun: the characteristic of being mute.

Noun

muteness (usually uncountable, plural mutenesses)

  1. (usually) The characteristic of being mute.
    • Jamike came with a certain muteness, as if something had silenced him.2019, Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities, Abacus (2019), page 498
    Synonyms:
    dumbness

muteness meaning in Tamil and Bengali

muteness in Tamil

characteristic of being mute
ஊமை ūmai

muteness in Bengali

নিঃশব্দ, বোবা হওয়ার বৈশিষ্ট্য

Synonyms of muteness

Forms of muteness

pluralmutenesses
alternative formmutenesse

Origin of muteness

From mute + -ness.

Questions about muteness

What does muteness mean?
Muteness means the characteristic of being mute.
What is muteness in Tamil?
Muteness in Tamil is ஊமை (ūmai). See Muteness meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is muteness?
Muteness is a noun.
What is the plural of muteness?
The plural of muteness is mutenesses.

Words near muteness in the dictionary

  1. mutelids
  2. mutelist
  3. mutelists
  4. mutely
  5. muten
  6. muteness
  7. mutenesses
  8. muter
  9. muters
  10. mutes
  11. mutesarif

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: muteness (page history and authors); muteness (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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