III. WORDS RELATING TO MATTER
III. ORGANIC MATTER
2. Sensation; special sensation; sound; perception of sound
Deafness.
[Antonyms: hearing (sense of sound)]
[Nouns] deafness, hardness of hearing, surdity; inaudibility, inaudibleness.
[Verbs] be deaf; have no ear; shut one's ears, stop one's ears, close one's ears; turn a deaf ear to.
render deaf, stun, deafen.
[Adjectives] deaf, earless, surd; hard of hearing, dull of hearing; deaf-mute, stunned, deafened; stone deaf; deaf as a post, deaf as an adder, deaf as a beetle, deaf as a trunkmaker.
inaudible, out of hearing.
