Epilepsy vs Deaf - What's the difference?
epilepsy | deaf |
(pathology) A medical condition in which the sufferer experiences seizures (or convulsions) and blackouts.
* (Jeremy Taylor)
Unable to hear, or only partially able to hear.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
Unwilling to listen or be persuaded; determinedly inattentive; regardless.
* Shakespeare
Obscurely heard; stifled; deadened.
* Dryden
(obsolete, UK, dialect) Decayed; tasteless; dead.
* Holland
Deaf people considered as a group.
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
English
(wikipedia epilepsy)Noun
- 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 * epileptiformSee also
* falling sickness * grand mal * petit maldeaf
English
Adjective
(er)- Come on my right hand, for this ear is deaf .
- Deaf with the noise, I took my hasty flight.
- Those people are deaf to reason.
- O, that men's ears should be / To counsel deaf , but not to flattery!
- A deaf murmur through the squadron went.
- a deaf''' nut; '''deaf corn
- (Halliwell)
- If the season be unkindly and intemperate, they [peppers] will catch a blast; and then the seeds will be deaf , void, light, and naught.