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What does dumbness mean?

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Noun
  1. The state of being dumb or mute: that is, of not communicating vocally, whether from selective mutism (refusal to speak) or from an inability to speak.
  2. Muteness, silence; abstention from speech.
  3. Show or gesture without words; pantomime; dumb-show.
  4. (informal) The quality of being stupid or foolish.
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This is not dumbness, or denseness, or illiteracy, but belligerent unenlightenment.
If it were solely a matter of the site blooper, then the error might be put down to dumbness and naivety.
Memory of past and foresight of future convert dumbness to some degree of articulateness.
Her ears twisted round to the sound of scraping at the door, her eyes now fully awake narrowed as she remembered the dumbness of dogs.
Aside from the intrinsic dumbness of the bill itself, there is also the outrageous process by which it was reported out of the conference committee.
Here discourse is always already reduced to silence, the dumbness of a chirp, the murmur of a coo.

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