From en.wikipedia.org:
[Mute] MUTENESS is a speech disorder in which a person lacks the ability to
speak.
MUTE, MUTES or THE MUTE may also refer to: [tocright]
** Arts and entertainment
*** Film and television
- _Mute_ (2005 film) , a short film by Melissa Joan Hart
- _Mute_ (2018 film) , a science-fiction thriller directed by Duncan Jones
- "Mute" ( _The Twilight Zone_ ) , a 1963 episode of _The Twilight Zone_
- _Muted_ (TV series) , a 2023 Spanish Netflix series
- Mutes, anthropomorphic animals in the American animated television series _Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts_
*** Music
- Mute (music) , a device used to alter the sound of a musical instrument
- Left-hand muting or palm mute , guitar muting techniques
- Mute Records , a record label in the United Kingdom
- _Mute_ (album) , a 2000 indie rock compilation album from Hush Records
- _Muted_ (album) , a 2003 album from hip hop artist Alias
*** In print
- _Mute_ (novel) , a 1981 novel by Piers Anthony
- "Mute" (short story) , by Stephen King
- Mute, a character in _Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege_
- _Mute_ (magazine) , an online magazine of culture and politics
** People
- Múte Bourup Egede (born 1987), Prime Minister of Greenland
- Shō Gen (1528–1572), king of the Ryukyu Kingdom called Gen the mute
- Pârvu Mutu (1657–1735), Wallachian Romanian muralist and church painter nicknamed Pârvu the Mute
** Other uses
- Mute (death customs) , a professional mourner in Victorian and other European cultures
- Mute (food) , a soup from Colombia
- Mute Island , part of the Society Islands of French Polynesia
- A silent letter , in phonology
- A professional mourner is sometimes called a mute
** See also
- Carlos Gardel (1890–1935), French-born Argentine singer, songwriter, composer and actor known ironically as " _El Mudo_ " ("The Mute")
- Juan Fernández Navarrete (1526–1579), Spanish Mannerist painter called " _El Mudo_ "
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