Definition for Muteness:

• The state of being mute.

Synonyms for Muteness:

• n.

  •
  • words.
  •attribute (noun)
  • muteness.
  •dumbness (noun)
  • voicelessness,
  • speechlessness,
  • dumbness.
  •silence (noun)
  • sulk,
  • quiescence,
  • hush-hush,
  • noiselessness,
  • iron curtain,
  • lull,
  • laconism,
  • Inarticulateness,
  • calm,
  • peace,
  • uncommunicativeness,
  • hush,
  • sullenness,
  • reserve,
  • sleep,
  • dead air,
  • taciturnity,
  • quietness,
  • saturninity,
  • reticence,
  • still,
  • death,
  • quietus,
  • inaudibility,
  • quiet,
  • censorship,
  • secrecy,
  • quietude,
  • blackout,
  • stillness.
  •state (noun)
  • mutism.
  •taciturnity (noun)
  • reservedness,
  • succinctness,
  • curtness.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • wordlessness.

Antonyms for Muteness:

• n.

  • noiselessness
    disturbance.
  • silence
    talk, noise, agitation, clamor, communication.
  • Other antonyms:
    verbosity, verboseness, loquaciousness, eloquence, talkativeness, talking, fluency, volubility, wordiness, speaking, windiness, loquacity, garrulousness.

Muteness Sentence Examples:

• Her muteness as long as Mrs. Hickley remained in the room seemed obstinate, voulu; the rapid speech into which she broke without preface when her cousin's step had ceased to sound on the stairs confirmed some vague impression of secretiveness.

• Her reply to this blunt wooing, conspired, she felt justifled in thinking, between him and Emma, was emphatic in muteness.

Homophones for Muteness:

• mountain ash, mediateness, momentaneous, muntingia, meadow mouse, monoatomic, mutinous, mutinus, medium-size, mating, myotonic, muddiness, metonymic, matins, minuteness, mountainous, moodiness, monatomic, monotonic, mundaneness, matting, madness, maddening, mending, mountain oak, Mount Adams, maintenance, meat-eating, monotonous, meeting house, meetinghouse, mounting, mandamus, Montan Wax, meeting.

Hypernym for Muteness:

• n.

  • state
    deaf-muteness, deaf-mutism.

Hyponym for Muteness:

• n.

  • attribute
    uncommunicativeness.
  • state
    condition, status.