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1
incapacity for or restraint from speaking
- the determined dumbness of the accountants who tally the votes for the Academy Awards
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2
the quality or state of lacking intelligence or quickness of mind
- couldn't believe the dumbness of the people who fell for that scam
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- boneheadedness,
- brainlessness,
- denseness,
- density,
- dim-wittedness,
- doltishness,
- dopiness,
- dorkiness,
- dullness
- (also dulness),
- fatuity,
- foolishness,
- gormlessness
- [chiefly British],
- mindlessness,
- oafishness,
- obtuseness,
- senselessness,
- simpleness,
- slowness,
- stupidity,
- stupidness,
- thickness,
- vacuity,
- weak-mindedness,
- witlessness
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