acoustic aphasia

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   an impairment in understanding spoken language that is not attributable to hearing loss

   Synonymsauditory aphasiaword deafness

   Broaderaphasia

Questions about acoustic aphasia

What does acoustic aphasia mean?

acoustic aphasia means "an impairment in understanding spoken language that is not attributable to hearing loss".

What is another word for acoustic aphasia?

Close synonyms include auditory aphasia, word deafness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is acoustic aphasia a common word?

acoustic aphasia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.