Crossword-Solution: DEAFNESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Deafness | n. | Incapacity of perceiving sounds; the state of the organs which prevents the impression which constitute hearing; want of the sense of hearing. |
| Deafness | n. | Unwillingness to hear; voluntary rejection of what is addressed to the understanding. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “DEAFNESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| "Children of a Lesser God" subject | 1 answer |
| Figuratively, complete inattention. | 1 answer |
| INABILITY to hear | 1 answer |
| Trouble for Beethoven. | 1 answer |
| loss of hearing | 1 answer |
| baryecola | 2 answers |
| AMUSIA | 2 answers |
| inaudibility | 6 answers |
| Silence | 93 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DEAFNESS (5)
Verena's presence at the table was an excuse for their not talking, though her deafness would have permitted the freest interchange of confidences.
After an apprehensive glance in the direction of the lodge (the good woman was gifted with the highly militant temper which is sometimes the privilege of deafness) Mrs.
The card-table was an animated scene to watch; four ladies’ heads, with niddle-noddling caps, all nearly meeting over the middle of the table in their eagerness to whisper quick enough and loud enough: and every now and then came Miss Barker’s “Hush, ladies! if you please, hush! Mrs Jamieson is asleep.” It was very difficult to steer clear between Mrs Forrester’s deafness and Mrs Jamieson’s sleepiness.
Presbury, reduced now by various infirmities--by absolute deafness, by dimness of sight, by difficulty in walking--to where eating was his sole remaining pleasure, or, indeed, distraction, spent all his time in concocting dishes for himself.
This work claims that Satan "attacks lunatics at the full moon, when their brains are full of humours"; that in other cases of illness he "stirs the black bile"; and that in cases of blindness and deafness he "clogs the eyes and ears." By the close of the century this "restatement" was evidently found untenable, and one of a very different sort was attempted in England.
Quotes with DEAFNESS (3)
But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness
Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.
I do strongly feel that among the greatest pieces of luck for high achievement is ordeal. Certain great artists can make out without it, Titian and others, but mostly you need ordeal. My idea is this: the artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business: Beethoven's deafness, Goya's deafness, Milton's blindness, that kind of thing.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1964–2012).