deafness
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- noun
- /ˈdɛf.nəs/
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sordera
- In the past two years, he'd been misdiagnosed with everything from deafness to autism to attention deficit disorder.
- adventitious deafness
- cause of deafness
- severe deafness
And they have really nasty side effects, kidney damage, liver damage, deafness and blindness.
- And they have really nasty side effects, kidney damage, liver damage, deafness and blindness.
- And I did have glue here, but it, but my, my, my deafness, there's no trace of it now particularly.
- Send Beethoven to an autolaryngologist to be operated on to correct his growing deafness.
- It's genomic reincarnation, it is restoring sight and it is curing deafness with, you know, the, the, you know, artificial eyes and artificial ears.
- Self-discipline helped Helen Keller to triumph over deafness, blindness and dumbness, a combination of afflictions such as most people never experience.
- Yeah, You have obviously people who have essentially limitation of blindness or deafness.
- So what I did in my lab is build a vest with vibratory motors all over it, and we tested for deafness for people who are deaf.
- So her endurance, her deafness, her idealism married to good business sense, those are all great lessons for our moment.
Examples
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Almost all deafness is because of loss of hair cells, but the elegant cochlear spiral remains.
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After the accident, he was diagnosed with partial deafness, making it hard for him to hear high-pitched sounds.
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I teach my students that deafness is not a disability.
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Early in the course of the disease, deafness is primarily for the low tones.
Academic text (1995) -
Much has been written about Beethoven's deafness, but my favorite story is this one.
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There are various degrees of deafness, Mr. Fenn.
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Beethoven's best work comes in his late period, a period of complete deafness.
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I'm assuming there's no history of deafness in your family?
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According to Peterson and Siegal, deafness alone did not predict delays in ToM development.
Academic text (2012) -
A 66-year-old woman complained of left ear deafness associated with a severe exacerbation of previously mild tinnitus.
Academic text (1998)
Synonyms
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A condition in which you cannot hear well in one or both ears
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Partial or total loss of the ability to hear
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A problem that makes it hard to hear sounds or understand speech
A partial loss of hearing that makes sounds quieter
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
Hearing loss from a problem in the middle ear that stops sound reaching the inner ear
- Specialized
Hearing loss caused by problems with the small bones in the middle ear
- Specialized
Hearing loss caused by damage to the inner ear or the part that sends sound to the brain
- Specialized
A problem where a person cannot understand speech even though hearing is normal
How Deaf
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Deafness comes from the old English word deaf, which meant 'unable to hear' and is like an old German word that meant 'silent'. The ending -ness makes it the 'state of not hearing', so deafness means not being able to hear.