单词 | mutism |
释义 | mutismn.1 1. The state or condition of being mute or silent; refusal to speak; inability or failure to produce normal speech or vocalizations, esp. as a result of physical or mental disability or illness. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > [noun] stillnessc1050 silencea1225 seld-speech?c1225 taciturnityc1450 retreata1533 mum1555 silentness1573 reticence1603 reticencya1617 reservation1619 parciloquy1656 reserve1659 costiveness1792 incommunicativeness1815 mutism1824 incommunicableness1835 ineloquence1843 incommunicability1855 unspeaking1860 mumchanceness1910 mumchanciness1920 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > vocal disorders > [noun] > dumbness dumbnessc1380 speechlessness1580 dumb1640 deaf-dumbness1822 mutism1824 deaf-mutism1865 deaf-muteness1874 surdomutism1880 ineffableness1883 the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > other mental illnesses neurosis1783 mutism1824 Americanitis1882 lata1884 miryachit1884 negativism1892 obsession1892 ressentiment1896 resentment1899 pseudologia1903 echopraxia1904 complex1907 pseudo-homosexuality1908 regression1910 kleptolagnia1917 sadomasochism1919 poriomania1921 superiority complex1921 martyr complex1926 rejection1931 nemesism1938 acting out1945 catathymia1949 elective mutism1950 psychosyndrome1965 panic attack1966 Munchausen syndrome by proxy1977 Polle syndrome1977 panic disorder1978 chronic factitious disorder1980 bigorexia1985 fabricated or induced illness1994 selective mutism1999 1824 W. E. Andrews Crit. & Hist. Rev. Fox's Bk. Martyrs I. 365 The term of his mutism was expected with impatience. 1851 W. H. Walshe Dis. Lungs & Heart 392 Cases of this affection [sc. tuberculous meningitis]..in which a peculiar form of mutism formed a striking symptom. 1853 C. Brontë Villette II. xxviii. 300 Paulina was awed by the savants, but not quite to mutism. 1873 Nature 27 Feb. 323/2 I know of two instances where perfect mutism accompanied the deafness in cats. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 418 The leading peculiarities of hysterical mutism are these... The subjects of this disability are completely mute. 1941 Brain 64 273 In a case of cystic tumour of the 3rd ventricle we have observed a peculiar mental state which may be described as akinetic or trance-like mutism. 1961 W. R. Brain Speech Disorders vii. 107 Mutism is the term applied to a complete loss of speech in a conscious patient in the absence of organic disease of the nervous system. 1969 P. Anderson in A. Cockburn & R. Blackburn Student Power 215 Given the complete mutism of the past, any such initial attempt will inevitably suffer from errors, lapses, [etc.]. 1989 Independent 11 Mar. 27/1 It is..associated with patients suffering from early infantile autism..characterised by..mutism or language that hardly helps communication. 2001 Med. Sci. Monitor 7 1307 There was rapidly progressive dementia, aphasia developing to organic mutism, myoclonus, hyperkinesia, ultimately loss of all verbal contact or voluntary movement. 2. Psychology. In full elective mutism, selective mutism. A psychological disorder of childhood in which a child is capable of speaking and comprehending speech but refuses to speak in certain social situations (most commonly at school). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > other mental illnesses neurosis1783 mutism1824 Americanitis1882 lata1884 miryachit1884 negativism1892 obsession1892 ressentiment1896 resentment1899 pseudologia1903 echopraxia1904 complex1907 pseudo-homosexuality1908 regression1910 kleptolagnia1917 sadomasochism1919 poriomania1921 superiority complex1921 martyr complex1926 rejection1931 nemesism1938 acting out1945 catathymia1949 elective mutism1950 psychosyndrome1965 panic attack1966 Munchausen syndrome by proxy1977 Polle syndrome1977 panic disorder1978 chronic factitious disorder1980 bigorexia1985 fabricated or induced illness1994 selective mutism1999 1950 Jrnl. Mental Sci. 96 1024 (title) Observations on elective mutism in children. 1950 Jrnl. Mental Sci. 96 1024 There is a distinct variety of mutism in children which Tramer and others call ‘elective’, i.e. partial, occurring vis-à-vis certain persons only. 1962 Jrnl. Child Psychol. & Psychiatry 3 41 Elective mutism is a condition in which the ability to talk is present, but in which the patient does not, or cannot, speak to certain persons. 1985 Jrnl. Communication Disorders 18 161 In this short case report, elective mutism was only one aspect of a young boy's general pattern of selective non-responding. 1999 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 8 July 24/2 Samantha suffers from selective mutism; although she can speak and understand spoken language, social anxiety makes her unable to speak in public. 2001 Brain & Devel. 23 83 When a child does not speak, this may be because there is no wish to do so (elective or selective mutism), or the result of lesions in the brain, particularly in the posterior fossa. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † mutismn.2 Obsolete. rare. = mutage n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > wine-making > [noun] > fermentation > checking fermentation mutage1839 mutism1853 1853 A. Ure Dict. Arts (ed. 4) I. 155 Wines which have been subjected to mutism. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.11824n.21853 |
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