Muteness is a speech disorder in which a person lacks the ability to speak.
Mute may also refer to:
Technology
- Mute (music), a device used to alter the sound of a musical instrument
- The mute switch or button on an electronic audio mixer, which silences a channel
- The tuner mute button, a switch on a bass instrument amplifier which silences the sound outputs
- Left-hand muting or palm mute, guitar muting techniques
- The mute function on a television or other device, which disables all audio output
- Muting on social media, preventing another user's posts from appearing in one's feed
Titled works
- Mute (2005 film), a short film by Melissa Joan Hart
- Mute (2018 film), a science-fiction thriller directed by Duncan Jones
- Mute (album), a 2000 indie rock compilation album from Hush Records
- Muted (album), a 2003 album from hip hop artist Alias
- Mute (magazine), an online magazine of culture and politics
- "Mute" (The Twilight Zone), an episode of The Twilight Zone
- "Mute" (short story), by Stephen King
Other uses
- Mute (death customs), a professional mourner in Victorian and other European cultures
- Mute (food), a soup from Colombia
- Mute Records, a record label in the United Kingdom
- A silent letter, in phonology
- Múte Bourup Egede (born 1987), Danish politician