amusia

Examples

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• Amusia is a congenital disorder; people with the condition have a hard time detecting the direction of pitch changes and can't tell some notes apart.

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• People with amusia often find it difficult to enjoy music, as they cannot recognize melodies or rhythms.

• OK, so all of that suggests that this Amusia is really more about pitch than speech.

• The literature on "amusia," loss of musical function due to destruction of brain tissue, gives further evidence of modularity.

  Academic text (2000)

• The research literature on amusia reveals that destruction of brain tissue may eliminate a particular musical function (e.g., the ability to track rhythms).

  Academic text (2000)

• Diagnosed with amusia, he struggled to match pitches when singing along to his favorite songs.

• A teacher noticed that her student had amusia because he couldn't keep time with the music during class activities.

Synonyms

T

tin ear

vsamusia

• Offensive

2 9.4

Cannot hear small differences in music or people's speech

is a medical inability rather than informal insensitivity to musical subtleties

T

tone deafness

vsamusia

6.1

Unable to hear differences between musical notes

is a medical inability that affects both tone recognition and rhythm production

U

unmusicality

vsamusia

9.5

Not able to sing, play, or understand music well

is a clinical inability to perceive or produce musical tones and rhythms

Antonyms

M

musicality

5 5.5

A strong sense of music and rhythm that makes speech or movement pleasant

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology