dumbness

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

The state of being mute: that is, of not communicating vocally, whether from selective mutism (refusal to speak) or from an inability to speak.
Muteness, silence; abstention from speech.
Show or gesture without words; pantomime; dumb-show.
The quality of being stupid or foolish.

dumbness dumbnesses dumbnesse

From Middle English dombenesse, from Old English dumbnes; equivalent to dumb + -ness. Cognate with Old Frisian dumbnisse (“folly, dumbness”).

dumbhood

dumb dumb-show

artificial dumbness

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