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2 definitions found 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 1.6 [wn]: deafness n : partial or complete loss of hearing
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