What is another word for "muteness"?

Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "muteness": all, and, any, awful, better, between, bite, bridle, button, cave, close, concealment, costive, costiveness, could, counsel, curt, curtness, dead, deathlike, doubt, drop, dumb, escape, est, faint, feather, few, finger, fool, grave, have, hear, hist, hold, hush, inaudible, inconversable, jaw, keep.