This is a test of the new dictionary software. Click a word, any word. Every word in the definitions below links back to its own definition, for greater overall comprehension and learning.

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) 2.0 [wn]:

  deafness
       n : partial or complete loss of hearing [syn: {hearing loss}]

This site brought to you by a half dozen lines of PHP code slapped together by Chris Knight and hosted by ProxyIT.