Hypertext Webster Gateway: "deafness"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
deafness
n : partial or complete loss of hearing
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