'Deafness' definitions:
Definition of 'deafness'
(from WordNet)
noun
Partial or complete loss of hearing [syn: deafness, hearing loss]
Definition of 'Deafness'
From: GCIDE
- Deafness \Deaf"ness\, n.
- 1. Incapacity of perceiving sounds; the state of the organs which prevents the impression which constitute hearing; want of the sense of hearing. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Unwillingness to hear; voluntary rejection of what is addressed to the understanding. [1913 Webster]
- Nervous deafness, a variety of deafness dependent upon morbid change in some portion of the nervous system, especially the auditory nerve. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'Deafness'
- Deaf,
- deaf to,
- Deaf Smith,
- Deaf and dumb,
- Nervous deafness,
- Psychical deafness,
- Word deafness,
- conduction deafness,
- deaf as a post,
- deaf mute,
- deaf person,
- nerve deafness,
- profoundly deaf,
- tone deafness,
- Deaf Smith County,
- Deaf Smith, TX,
- Deaf-mute,
- Stone-deaf,
- deaf-aid,
- deaf-and-dumb,
- deaf-muteness,
- deaf-mutism,
- tone-deaf,
- Deaf Smith County, TX,
- deaf-and-dumb person,
- middle-ear deafness