The quality or condition of being mute or silent; inability to speak or make a sound; wordlessness, silence. Also figurative.
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| 释义 | the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > loss or lack of voice > [noun] > silence or not uttering (13) muteness1590 The quality or condition of being mute or silent; inability to speak or make a sound; wordlessness, silence. Also figurative. infancy1641 In etymological sense: Inability or unwillingness to speak; speechlessness; silence. Obsolete. tacitness1657 The quality of being tacit; silence. ineloquence1843 Want of eloquence; the quality of being ineloquent; (in Carlyle) the reverse of eloquence or speaking out; silence. tongue-tying1869 Subcategories:— putting to silence (5) — subvocalization (3) |
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