muteness

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Against this thick muteness, my ears strained to listen for something, anything.

From Salon • Oct. 23, 2021

Harpo Marx’s muteness seems to turn up Groucho and Chico’s physical volume.

From Washington Post • Jun. 17, 2021

Recently I wrote a book about those things, Recollections Of My Non-Existence, about the muteness of my formative years.

From The Guardian • Feb. 29, 2020

The Chinese-American writer Weike Wang’s short story “Omakase,” published this year in The New Yorker, captures this cultural muteness as well.

From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2018

But Nana took advantage of the slightest distraction on Nivea’s part to persist in her attempts to cure the child’s muteness with the same remedy she used for hiccups.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende