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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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As a missionary, it was enough for him to go up into pulpit to be struck with dumbness.
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.
Memory of past and foresight of future convert dumbness to some degree of articulateness.
So in our dumbness we consumers prefer the inherently unfair multi-line system because we haven't trained our brains to appreciate the merits of single lines.
If it were solely a matter of the site blooper, then the error might be put down to dumbness and naivety.
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.

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