mutism
C1CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
An inability or refusal to speak in the absence of a structural cause for the loss of speech.
Her selective mutism meant she conversed freely at home yet uttered not a word in the classroom.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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