Deafness

Deaf′ness

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Noun.

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

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a variety of deafness dependent upon morbid change in some portion of the nervous system, especially the auditory nerve.

, n, dee'fness.

deafness ‎(countable and uncountable, plural deafnesses)

The condition of being deaf; the lack or loss of the ability to hear.
(figuratively) Lack of knowledge or refusal to admit a particular problem, issue, etc.
their deafness to her cries

condition of being deaf

Armenian: խլություն (hy) ‎(xlutʿyun)
Catalan: sordesa (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 聾 (zh), 聋 (zh) ‎(lóng)
Czech: hluchota (cs) f
Dutch: doofheid (nl) f
Estonian: kuulmispuue
Finnish: kuurous (fi)
French: surdité (fr) f
German: (complete): Taubheit (de) f, Gehörlosigkeit f; (partial): Schwerhörigkeit (de) f
Greek: κώφωση (el) f ‎(kófosi), κωφότητα (el) f ‎(kofótita)
Ancient: κωφότης f ‎(kōphótēs)
Hebrew: חירשות f ‎(khershut)

Italian: sordità (it) f
Latvian: kurlums m
Malay: kepekakan, ketulian
Navajo: ajéékałgo ąąh dahazʼą́
Polish: głuchota (pl) f
Portuguese: surdez (pt) f
Russian: глухота́ (ru) f ‎(gluxotá)
Scottish Gaelic: buidhre f
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: глувоћа f, глувост f (Serbian), глухоћа f, глухост f (Bosnian, Croatian)

Roman: gluvoća (sh) f, gluvost f (Serbian), gluhoća (sh) f, gluhost f (Bosnian, Croatian)
Spanish: sordera (es) f
Telugu: చెవుడు (te) ‎(cevuḍu) (chevuDu), చెవిటితనం ‎(ceviṭitanaṃ) (cheviTitanam)