deafness

1. n. Incapacity of perceiving sounds; the state of the organs which prevents the impression which constitute hearing; want of the sense of hearing. Source: opted

2. n. Unwillingness to hear; voluntary rejection of what is addressed to the understanding. Source: opted

3. n. partial or complete loss of hearing Source: wordnet

4. 1. Incapacity of perceiving sounds; the state of the organs which prevents the impression which constitute hearing; want of the sense of hearing. 2. Unwillingness to hear; voluntary rejection of what is addressed to the understanding. Nervous deafness, a variety of deafness dependent upon morbid change in some portion of the nervous system, especially the auditory nerve. Source: webster

5. n:100 n. partial or complete loss of hearing Source: ecdict

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