nerve deafness

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   hearing loss due to failure of the auditory nerve

   Synonymssensorineural hearing loss

   Broaderhearing impairment

Questions about nerve deafness

What does nerve deafness mean?

nerve deafness means "hearing loss due to failure of the auditory nerve".

What is another word for nerve deafness?

Close synonyms include sensorineural hearing loss. 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 nerve deafness a common word?

nerve deafness 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.