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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
Discrimination against deaf people in favor of hearing people.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, sciences, social-science, sociology
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From audio + -ism, modelled after racism and sexism. Coined by American academic Tom Humphries in 1975.
Across languages
13 source translations are retained for this English entry.
