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Definition: Nervous deafness
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.
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2. Unwillingness to hear; voluntary rejection of what is
addressed to the understanding.
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Nervous deafness, a variety of deafness dependent upon
morbid change in some portion of the nervous system,
especially the auditory nerve.
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