a
condition in which a person has something he is afraid to hear. He plays the radio very loudly, makes people repeat continually and misses pieces of the
conversation. Men and women are "hysterically" deaf without any
conscious knowledge of it. Their "
hearing just isn't so good." In
Dn, this is being called hypo-
hearing, (hypo=under).
(DMSMN, p. 189)