Deafness /(?)/

Deaf·ness

Deafness

n.
  1. Incapacity of perceiving sounds; the state of the organs which prevents the impression which constitute hearing; want of the sense of hearing.
  2. Unwillingness to hear; voluntary rejection of what is addressed to the understanding.

Phrases & Compounds
Nervous deafness
a variety of deafness dependent upon morbid change in some portion of the nervous system, especially the auditory nerve.