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Epilepsy vs Deaf - What's the difference?

epilepsy | deaf |

As nouns the difference between epilepsy and deaf

is that epilepsy is a medical condition in which the sufferer experiences seizures (or convulsions) and blackouts while deaf is deaf people considered as a group.

As an adjective deaf is

unable to hear, or only partially able to hear.

As a verb deaf is

to deafen.

epilepsy

Noun

  • (pathology) A medical condition in which the sufferer experiences seizures (or convulsions) and blackouts.
  • * (Jeremy Taylor)
  • Epilepsies , or fallings and reelings, and beastly vomitings. The least of these, even when the tongue begins to be untied, is a degree of drunkenness.

    Derived terms

    * epileptic * epileptiform

    See also

    * falling sickness * grand mal * petit mal

    deaf

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Unable to hear, or only partially able to hear.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Come on my right hand, for this ear is deaf .
  • * Dryden
  • Deaf with the noise, I took my hasty flight.
  • Unwilling to listen or be persuaded; determinedly inattentive; regardless.
  • Those people are deaf to reason.
  • * Shakespeare
  • O, that men's ears should be / To counsel deaf , but not to flattery!
  • Obscurely heard; stifled; deadened.
  • * Dryden
  • A deaf murmur through the squadron went.
  • (obsolete, UK, dialect) Decayed; tasteless; dead.
  • a deaf''' nut; '''deaf corn
    (Halliwell)
  • * Holland
  • If the season be unkindly and intemperate, they [peppers] will catch a blast; and then the seeds will be deaf , void, light, and naught.

    Synonyms

    * hard of hearing * hearing-impaired

    Derived terms

    * turn a deaf ear * stone deaf * fall on deaf ears

    See also

    * inaudible (unable to be heard ) * anosmic * blind

    Noun

  • Deaf people considered as a group.
  • Derived terms

    * deaf aid * deaf and dumb * deaf-mute * deafen * deafness

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To deafen.
  • (Dryden)

    See also

    * (pedia) * (Deaf culture)

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