Definitions for mutism

mutism mut·ism

Spelling: [myoo-tiz-uh m]
IPA: /ˈmyu tɪz əm/

Mutism is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 80 anagrams from letters in mutism (immstu).

Definitions for mutism

noun

  1. an inability to speak, due to a physical defect, conscious refusal, or psychogenic inhibition.

Origin of mutism

From the New Latin word mūtismus, dating back to 1815-25. See mute, -ism

Examples for mutism

Cousin Primitivo himself, with all the wisdom of the ancients, could not draw him out of his mutism.

The most constant feature was her mutism, but even that was a few times interrupted.

It is not unlike the ordinary stupor in the fact that there was intense inactivity and mutism with great tenseness.

During the night she is reported to have varied between stiffness with mutism and a more relaxed state.

When deafness is associated with mutism, he thinks it is often due merely to the inattention of the stuporous state.

Later, this was followed by mutism, refusal to eat, and stupor.

Her mutism and refusal of food she was unable to account for.

mutism, as used in psychiatry, is an abnormal inhibition to speech.

From the description this again seems to have been a typical stupor (immobility, mutism, tendency to catalepsy, rigidity).

Dumb walls merely, their mutism leaves large scope to imagination, and one may conjecture any but the right thing.

Word Value for mutism
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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