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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD AMUSIA

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PRONUNCIATION OF AMUSIA

amusia  [eɪˈmjuːzɪə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF AMUSIA

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Amusia is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES AMUSIA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Amusia

Amusia is a musical disorder that appears mainly as a defect in processing pitch, but it also encompasses musical memory and recognition. Two main classifications of amusia exist: acquired amusia, which occurs as a result of brain damage, and congenital amusia, which results from a music processing anomaly at birth. Studies have shown that congenital amusia is a deficit in fine-grained pitch discrimination and that 4% of the population suffers from this disorder. Acquired amusia, on the other hand, may take several forms. Patients with brain damage may experience the loss of ability to produce musical sounds while sparing speech, much like aphasics lose speech selectively but can sometimes still sing. Other forms of amusia may affect specific sub-processes of music processing. Current research has demonstrated dissociations between rhythm, melody, and emotional processing of music, and amusia may include impairment of any combination of these skill sets.

Definition of amusia in the English dictionary

The definition of amusia in the dictionary is the inability to distinguish differences in musical pitch; tone deafness.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH AMUSIA


Abkhazia
æbˈkɑːzɪə
anaesthesia
ˌænɪsˈθiːzɪə
analgesia
ˌænəlˈdʒiːzɪə
Anastasia
ˌænəˈstɑːzɪə
Andalusia
ˌændəˈluːzɪə
anesthesia
ˌænɪsˈθiːzɪə
artemisia
ˌɑːtɪˈmiːzɪə
babesia
bəˈbiːzɪə
easier
ˈiːzɪə
ecclesia
ɪˈkliːzɪə
freesia
ˈfriːzɪə
gambusia
ɡæmˈbjuːzɪə
hyperalgesia
ˌhaɪpərælˈdʒiːzɪə
Indonesia
ˌɪndəʊˈniːzɪə
indusia
ɪnˈdjuːzɪə
Micronesia
ˌmaɪkrəʊˈniːzɪə
nausea
ˈnɔːzɪə
nazir
ˈnɑːzɪə
newsier
ˈnjuːzɪə
synaesthesia
ˌsɪniːsˈθiːzɪə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE AMUSIA

amusable
amuse
amuse-bouche
amuseable
amused
amusedly
amusement
amusement arcade
amusement park
amusement ride
amuser
amusette
amusing
amusingly
amusingness
amusive
amusiveness

WORDS THAT END LIKE AMUSIA

ageusia
amnesia
Asia
Australasia
Bahasa Indonesia
Central Asia
clusia
fantasia
French Polynesia
fuchsia
Malaysia
ossia
parousia
Persia
Perusia
Polynesia
prosopagnosia
Russia
Southeast Asia
Tunisia

Synonyms and antonyms of amusia in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «amusia» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF AMUSIA

Find out the translation of amusia to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of amusia from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «amusia» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

amusia
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

amusia
570 millions of speakers

English

amusia
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

amusia
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

عمه الموسيقى
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

амузия
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

amusia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

amusia
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

amusie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Amusia
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

amusia
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

amusia
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

amusia
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Amusia
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

amusia
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

amusia
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अमुसिया
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

amusia
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

amusia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

amusia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

амузия
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

amusia
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

amusia
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

amusia
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

amusia
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

amusia
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of amusia

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «AMUSIA»

The term «amusia» is regularly used and occupies the 70.433 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «AMUSIA» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «amusia» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «amusia» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about amusia

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AMUSIA»

Discover the use of amusia in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to amusia and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Handbook of Theoretical Atomic Physics: Data for Photon ...
The aim of this book is to present highly accurate and extensive theoretical Atomic data and to give a survey of selected calculational methods for atomic physics, used to obtain these data.
Miron Amusia, Larissa Chernysheva, Victor Yarzhemsky, 2012
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The Psychology of Music
I. Congenital. Amusia. The vast majority of humans are born with the potential to make music. For most persons who are musically illiterate, this musical trait is expressed by avid listening and occasional dancing and singing. Such a musical  ...
Diana Deutsch, 2012
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Behavioral and Neural Correlates of Congenital Amusia
Keywords. congenital amusia, tone-deafness, pitch and time processing, behavioral and neural correlates, auditory cortex, fMRI, voxel-based morphometry
Krista Leigh Hyde, 2005
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The Neurosciences and Music III: Disorders and Plasticity
Automatic Brain Responses to Pitch Changes in Congenital Amusia Patricia Moreau, Pierre Jolicœur, and Isabelle Peretz BRAMS, Universit ́e de Montr ́eal, Qu ́ebec, Canada Congenital amusia is a lifelong disorder affecting the processing of ...
Simone Dalla Bella, Virginia Burdet Penhune, 2009
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Localization of Clinical Syndromes in Neuropsychology and ...
Anatomical Aspects Motor Amusia Motor amusia is usually observed in cases with frontal lobe lesions in the right hemisphere. Mann (1888) described a case of motor amusia without the accompanying presence of aphasia. An autopsy of the ...
Joseph M. Tonkonogy, Antonio E. Puente, 2009
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A Dictionary of Neurological Signs
Cross Reference Aphasia Amusia Amusia is a loss of the ability to appreciate music despite normal intelligence, memory, and language function. Subtypes have been described: receptive or sensory amusia is loss of the ability to appreciate ...
A.J. Larner, 2010
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Introduction to the Psychology of Music
Even today amusia is frequently taken to mean this complete indifference to music. By “ amusia ”, however, we are to understand disturbances in, and lack of, mruical perceptivity which, analogous to aphasia, are apparently the result of ...
Géza Révész, 2001
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Springer Handbook of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
Amusia: Many-body Effects in Electron Atomic Shells (A. F. loffe Physical- Technical In- 23.20 stitute Publications, Leningrad 1968) pp. 1-144 in Russian 23.5 M.Ya. Amusia: X-Ray and Inner-Shell Processes, 23.21 AIP Conf. Proc. 389, ed. by ...
Gordon W. F. Drake, 2006
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Bibliography of low energy electron and photon cross section ...
Normalized Normalized 6737 Martin, 75 6591 Wendin, 75 7563 Farnoux, 75 8793 Scofield, 76 8036 Amusia, 76 8793 Scofield, 76 6737 Martin, 75 9680 Tiwari, 77 8793 Scofield, 76 7555 Manson, 75 7408 Carter, 75 8453 Carter. 76 8793 ...
J. W. Gallagher, John R. Rumble, Earl Claude Beaty, 1979
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An Architectural Approach to Level Design
Amusia occurs in both receptive and expressive forms. In receptive amusia, patients are, to a greater or lesser degree, 'tone deaf'. In such a case, if the patient were to listen to a singer simply humming the tune to a song, he might be unable to ...
Christopher W. Totten, 2014

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AMUSIA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term amusia is used in the context of the following news items.
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Cheeky date for pop duo
Romanian-born Gabriela and Monica Irimia will appear at Whittles, King Street on July 2, in a gig organised by Amusia Awareness, part of a ... «Oldham Chronicle, May 15»
2
The unsung story of amusia
The term amusia was coined back in 1888 by a doctor called August Knoblauch, following the first diagnosis of the condition 10 years earlier. «ScienceBlog.com, May 15»
3
Book review: 'Tastes Like Music,' bodies' weird wonders
... the beat in a song, is related to the rarer and more severe phenomena of amusia, a condition in which a person cannot enjoy music because ... «Asheville Citizen-Times, Mar 15»
4
Talent Does Not Decide Whether You Succeed
Sure, some people actually suffer from amusia — which causes tone deafness — but it only occurs in about 1 in 20 people. The bottom line for ... «Lifehacker Australia, Feb 15»
5
Singing: Use it or lose it
Only a tiny subset of the population is truly tone deaf (a condition known as amusia), which means they can't hear most changes in pitch. «Northdallasgazette, Feb 15»
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Fundraiser for ailing musician set for Sunday
One unfortunate side effect, known as amusia, is the inability to recognize musical tones or to reproduce them. Today, nearing the two-year ... «Press & Sun-Bulletin, Feb 15»
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Science and Music: The Mystery of Amusia
The field of music cognition is rapidly developing, thanks particularly to discoveries concerning amusia. People with amusia have difficulty ... «La Scena Musicale, Feb 15»
8
Regular practice may be key to singing on pitch
Only a tiny subset of the population is truly tone deaf (a condition known as amusia), which means they can't hear most changes in pitch. «Medical Xpress, Feb 15»
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Land of the Lost: U of C neuroscientist helping people with rare …
Then there's amusia, the inability to make sense of music. Amusia turns an orchestral melody from a pleasure to a cacophony as irritating as ... «Calgary Herald, Jan 15»
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Strange But True: Average vocabulary is ...
Despite the sound of the word, those who suffer from amusia do not have any impairment of their sense of humor; rather, they're tone deaf ... «Naples Daily News, Jan 15»

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