auditory hyperesthesia

1. 1.

   abnormal acuteness of hearing due to increased irritability of the sensory neural mechanism; characterized by intolerance for ordinary sound levels

   Synonymshyperacusishyperacusia

   Broaderhearing impairment

Questions about auditory hyperesthesia

What does auditory hyperesthesia mean?

auditory hyperesthesia means "abnormal acuteness of hearing due to increased irritability of the sensory neural mechanism; characterized by intolerance for ordinary sound levels".

What is another word for auditory hyperesthesia?

Close synonyms include hyperacusis, hyperacusia. 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 hyperesthesia a common word?

auditory hyperesthesia 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.