hearing impairment

What does hearing impairment mean?

hearing impairment means "impairment of the sense of hearing".

What is another word for hearing impairment?

Close synonyms include hearing disorder. 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 hearing impairment a common word?

hearing impairment 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hearing impairment come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.