auditory aphasia

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

   Synonymsacoustic aphasiaword deafness

   Broaderaphasia

Questions about auditory aphasia

What does auditory aphasia mean?

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

What is another word for auditory aphasia?

Close synonyms include acoustic 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 auditory aphasia a common word?

auditory 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.