Crossword clues for deafness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Deafness \Deaf"ness\, n.
Incapacity of perceiving sounds; the state of the organs which prevents the impression which constitute hearing; want of the sense of hearing.
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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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from deaf + -ness.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The condition of being deaf; the lack or loss of the ability to hear. 2 (context figurative English) Lack of knowledge or refusal to admit a particular problem, issue, etc.
WordNet
n. partial or complete loss of hearing [syn: hearing loss]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "deafness".
Batz, on the coast of France, where Voisin found five marriages of first cousins and thirty-one of second cousins, without a single case of mental defect, congenital deafness, albinism, retinitis pigmentosa or malformation?
Of course it was impossible to take her helmet off, even momentarily, without risking a collapse from anoxia, because of the depleted airnot to mention deafness.
The slipping oysters and the game of blind man's buff made the princess burst with laughing, in spite of her deafness.
The violent compression of the air, which you and I might think of as a possible cure for deafness, is construed, by such people, entirely differently .
CHAPTER 26 Silence was all Chloe heard when she could hear again, though it wasn't exactly silence, for, in contrast to the utter vacuum of deafness, silence was a mishmash of white noise: the faint hum of fluorescent lighting, the soft push of air from dehumidifiers installed to protect the ancient texts.
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Having become ringer of the bells of Notre-Dame at the age of fourteen, a fresh infirmity had come upon him: the volume of sound had broken the drum of his ear, and deafness was the consequence.
The sudden silence of the ship at rest gave an illusion of deafness: the constant white noise had ceased.
Many had balls of cotton wool stuffed in their ears, but they courted deafness as well as death with every shot.
Though he was nearly eighty, Margo suspected he only feigned deafness to annoy people.
He suffered awful bouts of dizziness, nausea, deafness, and mental incapacity.
The deafness had worn off slowly, although they diagnosed one perforated eardrum, and the buzzing in his head and the dizzy sickness both left him during the afternoon.
Unto these things Thou repliest unto me, for Thou art my God, and with strong voice tellest unto Thy servant in his inner ear, bursting through my deafness, and crying, "O man, that which My Scripture saith, I say.
The deafness may have been as much internal as caused by the terrific banging clatter he was making, for his face was set into that frustrated angry mask common to men who are singlemindedly, impatiently, making a botch of a job.
They seemed to say that they owed me nothing, that their deafness had provided me with a moral goal, that it had been my duty to struggle, to suffer, to bear—for their sake—whatever sneers, contempt, injustice, torture they chose to inflict upon me, to bear it in order to teach them to enjoy my work, that this was their rightful due and my proper purpose.