hearing loss

1. 1.

   partial or complete loss of hearing

   Synonymsdeafness

   Broaderhearing impairment

   Narrowertone deafnessdeaf-mutism

Questions about hearing loss

What does hearing loss mean?

hearing loss means "partial or complete loss of hearing".

What is another word for hearing loss?

Close synonyms include 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 hearing loss a common word?

hearing loss 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.