muteness

Around them on every side crept the mist in whose silver muteness they landed to gather white mushrooms.

Henrietta could have bitten her tongue for laying her open to the censure implied in his muteness.

She turned abruptly away, and stood at a distance in gloomy muteness.

For a day or two he persevered in his muteness, uttering a word only when it could not be avoided.

But her muteness passed unnoticed, because for once in her life Miss Sabrina was voluble, her words tumbled over one another.