Difference between speechless and dumbness
Definitions
adjective
- temporarily incapable of speaking
Examples
I. ii.188 (19,2) [There is a prone and speechless dialect] I can scarcely tell what signification to give to the word _prone_.
In chantries unrehearsed we'd wow the votarists and serenade the friary to panting ecstasies while summoned to kingly chambers we branked the troubadours, turning the sovereign mind to heaven, the courtiers left speechless with neglect...
The shock of the discovery rendered him speechless.
Definitions
noun
- the quality of being mentally slow and limited
Examples
He might have confirmed the relation between dumbness and darkness from the acutest metaphysician among poets, in Dante's _ove il sol tace_.
There is no distinction in India between deafness and deaf and dumbness and, because Ian can speak, they have trouble believing that he cannot hear.
Ear research is in an advanced stage, and dumbness also could be cured.
