• n.
    ⦿a refusal to speak when expected
    lexical concept
  • his silence about my contribution was surprising

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:muteness
  2. enl:silence
wn:interlingual indexili:i61514

Other

skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelmutenesssilence