mutism

English

Etymology

From French mutisme, from Latin mutus (“mute”), equivalent to mute +‎ -ism.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmjuːtɪzəm/

Noun

mutism (countable and uncountable, plural mutisms)

1. A psychological disorder in which the sufferer cannot speak in certain situations.

Derived terms

• elective mutism
• selective mutism

 

Related terms

• mute

Translations

psychological disorder

• Bulgarian: немота (bg) f (nemota)
• Catalan: mutisme (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 緘默症／缄默症 (zh) (jiānmòzhèng)

• Czech: mutismus m
• Dutch: mutisme (nl) n
• Finnish: mutismi (fi)
• French: mutisme (fr) m
• German: Mutismus (de) m
• Hungarian: mutizmus
• Italian: mutismo (it) m
• Japanese: 緘黙症 (かんもくしょう, kanmokushō), 無言症 (むごんしょう, mugonshō)
• Korean: 함묵증(緘默症) (hammukjeung), 함구증(緘口症) (hamgujeung), 무언증(無言症) (mueonjeung)
• Old English: dumbnes f
• Polish: mutyzm m
• Portuguese: mutismo m
• Spanish: mutismo (es) m
• Swedish: mutism (sv) c

Anagrams

• summit

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French mutisme. By surface analysis, mut +‎ -ism.

Noun

mutism n (uncountable)

1. muteness

Declension

declension of mutism (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) mutism	mutismul
genitive/dative	(unui) mutism	mutismului
vocative	mutismule

Swedish

Noun

mutism c

1. mutism

Declension

Declension of mutism

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	mutism	mutisms
	definite	mutismen	mutismens
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

Anagrams

• summit