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amusic

amusic adjective: relating to or exhibiting amusia.

Adjective

amusic (comparative more amusic, superlative most amusic)

  1. Relating to or exhibiting amusia.
    • Can speech and music be that tonally different? Ayotte et al. at first thought that the ability of amusic people to perceive the intonations of speech might be because speech was less exacting than music in its requirements for fine pitch discrimination.2007, Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

Forms of amusic

comparativemore amusic
superlativemost amusic

Origin of amusic

From amusia + -ic.

Questions about amusic

What does amusic mean?
Amusic means relating to or exhibiting amusia.
What part of speech is amusic?
Amusic is an adjective.

Words near amusic in the dictionary

  1. amusettes
  2. Amusgo
  3. Amusgos
  4. amusia
  5. amusias
  6. amusic
  7. amusical
  8. amusin'
  9. amusing
  10. amusinger
  11. amusingest

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