mutenessn.

Brit.

/ˈmjuːtnəs/, U.S.

/ˈmjutnəs/

Forms: see mute adj. and -ness suffix.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mute adj., -ness suffix.

Etymology: < mute adj. + -ness suffix.

1. The quality or condition of being mute or silent; inability to speak or make a sound; wordlessness, silence. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > inaudibility > [noun] > silence

stillnessc1050

silence?c1225

clum1340

stillhead1340

quiet?c1450

whust1558

husht1566

muteness1590

silency1595

still1608

hushtness1609

whistness1609

silentness1664

noiselessness1834

soundlessness1834

non-speech1863

shush1954

deafening silence1968

ciunas1986

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > loss or lack of voice > [noun] > silence or not uttering

muteness1590

infancy1641

tacitness1657

ineloquence1843

tongue-tying1869

1590 H. Barrow Coll. Lett. & Conf. iii. 65 Here Mr. Cooper was smitten with mutenes.

1643 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce 8 The bashfull mutenes of a virgin.

a1689 W. Cleland Coll. Poems (1697) 119 Help me to express, or sitting dumb, In Melancholious muteness, and in Tears. Regrait our present loss, and ground of fears.

1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random II. lv. 201 The old woman could not fail of ascribing my muteness to the same motive.

1823 C. Lamb Quakers' Meeting in Elia 103 What is the stillness of the desert, compared with this place? What the uncommunicating muteness of fishes?

1852 tr. J. J. Seidel Organ & its Constr. 138 If the foot of a wood pipe be very badly worm-eaten,..muteness of the pipe will be the consequence.

1898 Atlantic Monthly 82 480/1 Terror and absolute muteness reign in the house.

1926 Philos. Rev. 35 501 A silent revolution often unnoticed from without, but causing nevertheless many secret tragedies, often as pitiful in their muteness as were the widely heralded dramas of the war.

1960 Yale French Stud. No. 25. 105 All his stories are, directly or indirectly, about true muteness, about a measure of solitude in man.

1988 L. Appignanesi Simone de Beauvoir ii. 33 Beauvoir maintains a near Victorian muteness about the sexual side of her and Sartre's relationship.

2. Hunting. In a hound: the habit of running mute (see mute adj. 7). rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > hound > [noun] > sound made by > habit of not barking

muteness1881

1881 Encycl. Brit. XII. 315/2 Lastly, they must be free from certain faults, such as muteness, babbling, and skirting.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	muteness
释义	mutenessn. Brit. /ˈmjuːtnəs/, U.S. /ˈmjutnəs/ Forms: see mute adj. and -ness suffix. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mute adj., -ness suffix. Etymology: < mute adj. + -ness suffix. 1. The quality or condition of being mute or silent; inability to speak or make a sound; wordlessness, silence. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > inaudibility > [noun] > silence stillnessc1050 silence?c1225 clum1340 stillhead1340 quiet?c1450 whust1558 husht1566 muteness1590 silency1595 still1608 hushtness1609 whistness1609 silentness1664 noiselessness1834 soundlessness1834 non-speech1863 shush1954 deafening silence1968 ciunas1986 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > loss or lack of voice > [noun] > silence or not uttering muteness1590 infancy1641 tacitness1657 ineloquence1843 tongue-tying1869 1590 H. Barrow Coll. Lett. & Conf. iii. 65 Here Mr. Cooper was smitten with mutenes. 1643 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce 8 The bashfull mutenes of a virgin. a1689 W. Cleland Coll. Poems (1697) 119 Help me to express, or sitting dumb, In Melancholious muteness, and in Tears. Regrait our present loss, and ground of fears. 1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random II. lv. 201 The old woman could not fail of ascribing my muteness to the same motive. 1823 C. Lamb Quakers' Meeting in Elia 103 What is the stillness of the desert, compared with this place? What the uncommunicating muteness of fishes? 1852 tr. J. J. Seidel Organ & its Constr. 138 If the foot of a wood pipe be very badly worm-eaten,..muteness of the pipe will be the consequence. 1898 Atlantic Monthly 82 480/1 Terror and absolute muteness reign in the house. 1926 Philos. Rev. 35 501 A silent revolution often unnoticed from without, but causing nevertheless many secret tragedies, often as pitiful in their muteness as were the widely heralded dramas of the war. 1960 Yale French Stud. No. 25. 105 All his stories are, directly or indirectly, about true muteness, about a measure of solitude in man. 1988 L. Appignanesi Simone de Beauvoir ii. 33 Beauvoir maintains a near Victorian muteness about the sexual side of her and Sartre's relationship. 2. Hunting. In a hound: the habit of running mute (see mute adj. 7). rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > hound > [noun] > sound made by > habit of not barking muteness1881 1881 Encycl. Brit. XII. 315/2 Lastly, they must be free from certain faults, such as muteness, babbling, and skirting. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1590
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