Mute

Muteness is a speech disorder in which a person lacks the ability to speak.

Mute or the Mute may also refer to:

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