hyperacusis

Questions about hyperacusis

What is another word for hyperacusis?

It depends which hyperacusis you mean. In the sense “abnormal acuteness of hearing due to increased irritability of the sensory neural mechanism; characterized by intolerance for ordinary sound levels”, the synonyms are hyperacusia, auditory hyperesthesia. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of hyperacusis?

WordNet records no antonym for hyperacusis. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for hyperacusis come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of hyperacusis

• Full entry for hyperacusisAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for hyperacusisWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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