'Nervous deafness' definitions:

Definition of 'Nervous 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]