hyperacusis

1. 1.

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

   Synonymshyperacusiaauditory hyperesthesia

   Broaderhearing impairment

Other forms of hyperacusis

plural

hyperacusises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hyperacusis

What does hyperacusis mean?

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

How many syllables are in hyperacusis?

hyperacusis has 5 syllables: hy-pe-ra-cu-sis. The stress falls on "ra".

What is another word for hyperacusis?

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

hyperacusis 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.