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Auditory aphasia   /ˈɔdɪtˌɔri əfˈeɪʒə/   Listen
Auditory aphasia

noun
1.
An impairment in understanding spoken language that is not attributable to hearing loss.  Synonyms: acoustic aphasia, word deafness.






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"Auditory aphasia" Quotes from Famous Books



... be motor aphasia, auditory aphasia, vocal aphasia, sight aphasia; and with disability to produce words, they may yet be recognized when seen; or when they can be spoken they may not be recognized when heard; or with inability to speak them, they are accurately sensed by hearing; or though understood ...
— Applied Psychology for Nurses • Mary F. Porter

... an injury comes to the auditory centre in the temporal region, we find the converse of the case just described; the defect is then called Auditory Aphasia. The patient can not now speak or write words which he hears, and can not speak spontaneously in proportion as he is accustomed to depend upon his memories of the word sounds. But in most cases he can still both speak and write printed ...
— The Story of the Mind • James Mark Baldwin



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