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(medicine) Auditory aphasia, a condition in which the patient hears words but cannot understand them..
Use word-deafness when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Word-deafness means (medicine) Auditory aphasia, a condition in which the patient hears words but cannot understand them..
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