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deafhood

deafhood noun: the journey of a hearing-impaired individual's discovering of their identity, culture, and purpose.

Noun (1)

deafhood (countable and uncountable, plural deafhoods)

  1. The journey of a hearing-impaired individual's discovering of their identity, culture, and purpose.

Noun (2) capitalized: Deafhood

Deafhood (countable and uncountable, plural Deafhoods)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of deafhood

Forms of deafhood

pluraldeafhoods
alternative formDeafhood
pluralDeafhoods

Origin of deafhood

Coined in 2003 by Paddy Ladd in his book Understanding Deaf Culture: In Search of Deafhood. Equivalent to deaf + -hood.

Questions about deafhood

What does deafhood mean?
Deafhood means the journey of a hearing-impaired individual's discovering of their identity, culture, and purpose.
What part of speech is deafhood?
Deafhood is a noun.
What is the plural of deafhood?
The plural of deafhood is deafhoods.

Words near deafhood in the dictionary

  1. deaffricates
  2. deaffricating
  3. deaffrication
  4. deaffrications
  5. deaffricatization
  6. deafhood
  7. deafhoods
  8. deafie
  9. deafies
  10. deafing
  11. deafish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deafhood (page history and authors); Deafhood (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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