muteness
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I wondered if Sadie, with her supernatural ability and muteness, may be an archetypical prophet figure, like Tiresias, the blind soothsayer from the Greek dramas.
From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2022
Against this thick muteness, my ears strained to listen for something, anything.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 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
It later became the habitual muteness of the acquiescent.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 5, 2018
When I refused to be the child they knew and accepted me to be, I was called impudent and my muteness sullenness.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
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