HEARING IMPAIRMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hearing impairment mean? 

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

1. impairment of the sense of hearing

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEARING IMPAIRMENT (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 impairment" 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 impairment"):

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)

 Context examples 

An auditory test performed in children with hearing impairment.

(Conditioning Play Audiometry, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by growth and developmental delay, vision and hearing impairment, and impairment of the peripheral nervous system function.

(Cockayne syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

The study of hearing and hearing impairment.

(Audiology, NCI Thesaurus)

Detecting even mild degrees of hearing impairment earlier could lead to earlier intervention that would limit these brain changes, and improve children’s chances of developing normal language.

(Mild-to-moderate hearing loss in children leads to changes in how brain processes sound, University of Cambridge)

This means that children with mild hearing impairment might not be detected until later in childhood, if at all.

(Mild-to-moderate hearing loss in children leads to changes in how brain processes sound, University of Cambridge)