(n.) The quality or state of being mute; speechlessness.
Thesaurus Entries
anaudia, aphasia, aphonia, aphrasia, brevity, briefness, brusqueness, conciseness, curtness, deaf-muteness, dumbness, economy of words, inarticulateness, jargon aphasia, laconicalness, laconism, loss of speech, motor aphasia, mutism, obmutescence, paranomia, paraphasia, pauciloquy, quietness, quietude, shortness, silence, sparingness of words, speechlessness, taciturnity, terseness, tonguelessness, unloquaciousness, untalkativeness, voicelessness, wordlessness
