What is tone deafness?
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It usually means poor pitch discrimination. If two notes are close together, you have difficulty telling if one pitch is higher than the other and their relative distance apart. It can also mean someone who doesn’t recognize when their own singing is offkey, regardless of what they might recognize in others.
Tone deafness It is usually just a matter of degree, some people are just better than you are, but a small percentage of people have a condition called amusia. This goes beyond not recognizing pitch, their brains don’t get the whole concept of music, they don’t recognize entire tunes and can’t tell when a note is incorrect.
Tone deafness can also be used as a metaphor for not reading emotions or understanding a social situation to the point where you say or do something inappropriate. Complaining about how unfair it was to work an extra hour to someone who just pulled a double shift is tone deaf.
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