muteness
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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
Nearly every password I created back then reflected that thinking: 1Silence, NeedSilence, WantSilence, as if muteness could save me.
From New York Times ● Oct. 16, 2018
Reverend Salles has written to tell him that Vincent “has withdrawn into absolute muteness, hides himself under his bedcovers and sometimes cries without uttering a word.”
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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