AMUSIA

PRONUNCIATION: (ay-MYOO-zee-uh)

MEANING: noun: The inability to recognize, reproduce, or appreciate music.

ETYMOLOGY: From Greek a- (not) + mousike (music), from Mousa (Muse). Earliest documented use: 1890.
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AMUSIAL - not having a shortstop, in St Louis

CAMUSIA - strangeness (just ask a scholar of French literature)

"AM USA !" - said Uncle Sam when he was just a nephew