HEARING DISORDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hearing disorder mean? 

• HEARING DISORDER (noun)
  The noun HEARING DISORDER has 1 sense:

1. impairment of the sense of hearing

  Familiarity information: HEARING DISORDER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEARING DISORDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Impairment of the sense of hearing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

hearing disorder; hearing impairment

Hypernyms ("hearing disorder" is a kind of...):

disability; disablement; handicap; impairment (the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hearing disorder"):

deafness; hearing loss (partial or complete loss of hearing)

conduction deafness; conductive hearing loss; middle-ear deafness (hearing loss due to problems with the bones of the middle ear)

auditory hyperesthesia; hyperacusia; hyperacusis (abnormal acuteness of hearing due to increased irritability of the sensory neural mechanism; characterized by intolerance for ordinary sound levels)

nerve deafness; sensorineural hearing loss (hearing loss due to failure of the auditory nerve)