Synonyms for dumbness

The dumbness that had fallen from his daughter seemed to have dropped upon him.

Molly says, at length awakening to the fact of her lover's dumbness.

At Oxford Circus they got out, and left me pondering on deafness and dumbness.

For the sake of his hoard he had taken on himself the dumbness and deafness of a fish.

In her constant living with animals she had caught their dumbness and their calm.

He opened his mouth to answer, indeed, but a dumbness sealed his lips.

"Something'll come of the dumbness," he prophesied to himself.

But her faculty for dumbness was stronger than his, and—he had to speak first.

This question, focusing his doubts, broke down the Squire's dumbness.

Perhaps she herself had been sufficient reason for his dumbness.