muteness
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- mutenesse (obsolete)
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muteness (usually uncountable, plural mutenesses)
- The characteristic of being mute.
- 2019, Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities, Abacus (2019), page 498:
- Jamike came with a certain muteness, as if something had silenced him.
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characteristic of being mute
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