The inability to recognize musical tones or to reproduce them. Amusia can be congenital (present at birth) or be acquired sometime later in life (as from brain damage). Amusia is composed of a- + -musia and literally means the lack of music. Also commonly called tone deafness.

noun. a kind of audile aphasia wherein people are not capable of comprehending musical tunes. The health problem is usually connected to a wound in the left parietal lobe within the human brain. Expre [..]

Amusia is the loss or reduction of musical abilities as a result of brain damage or biological genetic factors. Sufferers have a difficulty or inability to perceive music and its components (like note [..]

A disorder characterized by the inability to discern tunes accurately.

A general term referring to any neurological disorder which interferes with musical functioning. Amusias might include musical alexia (lost ability to read music), musical agraphia (lost ability to notate music), musical anomia (lost ability to name works, composers, styles, etc.), and so on.

A form of aphasia characterised by an inability to produce or recognise music. Origin: G. A-priv. + mousa, music (05 Mar 2000)