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hearing loss vs tone deafness

tone deafness vs hearing loss

hearing loss and tone deafness both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
hearing loss Yes No No No
tone deafness Yes No No No
As nouns, tone deafness is a hyponym of hearing loss; that is, tone deafness is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than hearing loss:
  • hearing loss: partial or complete loss of hearing
  • tone deafness: an inability to distinguish differences in pitch
Other hyponyms of hearing loss include tin ear, deaf-muteness, deaf-mutism.
hearing loss (noun) tone deafness (noun)
partial or complete loss of hearing an inability to distinguish differences in pitch
Difference between hearing loss and tone deafness

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