What does unhearing mean?

unhearing means "totally deaf; unable to hear anything".

How many syllables are in unhearing?

unhearing has 4 syllables and divides as un-he-a-ring under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for unhearing?

Close synonyms include profoundly deaf, stone-deaf, deaf as a post. 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 unhearing a common word?

unhearing is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Unhearing — meaning and 3 synonyms

adjective

1 senseA word that describes or qualifies a noun.

1.
totally deaf; unable to hear anything
Synonymsprofoundly deaf stone-deaf deaf as a post
Similardeaf

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What does unhearing mean?: unhearing means "totally deaf; unable to hear anything".
How many syllables are in unhearing?: unhearing has 4 syllables and divides as un-he-a-ring under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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