Dumbness

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Muteness; silence; abstention from speech; absence of sound.
  • noun. Incapacity for speaking; inability to utter articulate sounds. See deafness.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The quality or state of being dumb; muteness; silence; inability to speak.
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  • noun. The state of being dumb (either mute or dim-witted), that is, not communicating vocally, whether from selective mutism or from an inability to speak.
  • noun. Muteness, silence; abstention from speech.
  • noun. Refusal or unwillingness to speak.
  • noun. Show or gesture without words; pantomime; dumb-show.
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  • noun. the quality of being mentally slow and limited
    • Word Usage
    "But the third, and most pernicious, level of dumbness is its pro-cyclical neo-Hooverite nature."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    stupidity  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    aurium  blankness  coryza  deafness  encephalopathy  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    anaudia  aphasia  aphonia  asininity  blockishness  
    verb-stem
    dumb  
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