deafness

Noun

Meaning

Incapacity of perceiving sounds; the state of the organs which prevents the impression which constitute hearing; want of the sense of hearing.

Unwillingness to hear; voluntary rejection of what is addressed to the understanding.

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You called and shouted and burst my deafness. You flashed, shone, and scattered my blindness. You breathed odors, and I drew in breath and panted for You. I tasted, and I hunger and thirst. You touched me, and I burned for Your peace. Augustine of Hippo

Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us? Frank Herbert

Your tale, sir, would cure deafness. William Shakespeare

I live my life like everyone else; everyone has their own obstacles. Mine is deafness. Marlee Matlin

Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark profound, Our deafness each one laughs about. Then reason's light with falling ray Doth but a trembling flicker cast. Honor to age, ye children pay! Alas! my fifty years are past! Pierre-Jean de Béranger

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense. Horace Walpole

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