n. 聋, 不听

[医] 聋[症]

[ noun ]
partial or complete loss of hearing
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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.