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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Deafness \Deaf"ness\, 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}, a variety of deafness dependent upon morbid change in some portion of the nervous system, especially the auditory nerve.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
deafness
noun: partial or complete loss of hearing [syn: {hearing loss}]
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