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Definition of Amusia
1. the inability to recognize musical sounds [n -S]
Medical Definition of Amusia
1. A form of aphasia characterised by an inability to produce or recognise music. Origin: G. A-priv. + mousa, music (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Amusia
| amusable amuse amused amusedly amuser amusers amuses amusette amusettes amusia (current term) | amusias amusical amusingly amusingness amusingnesses amusiveness amychophobia amyctic amyddest amyddst | amydst |
Literary usage of Amusia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"The defect may be motor, as in a loss of the power to execute music by singing
or by performing upon an instrument (motor amusia); or the loss of ability to ..."
2. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1895)
"The impulse to his study of this subject was a case of amusia in which ...
The different forms of amusia are comparable with the different forms of aphasia. ..."
3. Letter-, Word- and Mind-blindness by James Hinshelwood (1900)
"Of the different forms of amusia described in this paper one of the most interesting
is note- blindness—ie, loss of the visual memory for musical notes. ..."
4. Annual of the Universal Medical Sciencesedited by [Anonymus AC02809657] edited by [Anonymus AC02809657] (1896)
"The various forms of amusia possess a certain degree of independence both ...
The clinical varieties of amusia appear to be analogous to the clinical forms ..."
5. Review of Neurology and Psychiatry (1905)
"Ballet contrasts a comparable variety of amusia with each classic form of aphasia.
Brazier, writing in 1892, distinguishes the following primary types of ..."
6. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1901)
"Thus, word-deaf becomes music-deaf—auditory amusia; alexia, inability to read
... also, ventured so far as to describe more recondite forms of amusia, ..."
7. Principles of medical pathology by Henri Roger (1905)
"Sensory amusia includes the true sensory amusia ... Motor amusia comprises motor
amusia, properly so called, when the patient can not sing; ..."
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