word-deafness

noun

Etymology

From word + deafness.

  1. inherited from deefnesse
  2. compounded as word-deafness — “word + deafness

Definitions

  1. Auditory aphasia, a condition in which the patient hears words but cannot understand them.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for word-deafness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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