Dumbness
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Dumbness is a noun meaning (informal) The quality of being stupid or foolish.
Meaning
(informal) The quality of being stupid or foolish.
More Meanings
- (dated) Muteness, silence; abstention from speech.
- (dated) Show or gesture without words; pantomime; dumb-show.
- (dated, now offensive) The state of being mute: that is, of not communicating vocally, whether from selective mutism (refusal to speak) or from an inability to speak.
Example Sentences
There was speech in their dumbness.
To the dumbness of the gesture one might interpret.
He was a deaf-mute. His dumbness did not seem to matter when we were boys.
Word Forms
- dumbnesses
- dumbnesse
Synonyms for dumbness
Depending on context, synonyms include dumbhood, denseness, slow-wittedness.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include slow-wittedness, denseness, deaf-muteness, obmutescence, speechlessness, deafmute.
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