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What does deafness mean?

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Noun
  1. The condition of being deaf; the lack or loss of the ability to hear.
  2. (figuratively) Lack of knowledge or refusal to admit a particular problem, issue, etc.
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Pure word deafness can arise from a problem at any point of the process of auditory encoding for speech.
Patients with pure word deafness have highly selective auditory perception problems.
It was about this time that Beethoven accepted that his deafness was permanent, causing despair beyond melancholy.
The main symptoms are sudden, severe dizziness, partial deafness, sounds in the ear and jerky eye movements.
Treatment is based on trying to control the associated symptoms of vertigo, tinnitus and deafness.
The findings have important implications for our conceptualization of pure word deafness and its subtypes.

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