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Definition of Audile

1. Noun. One whose mental imagery is auditory rather than visual or motor.

2. Adjective. Of or relating to the process of hearing. "An audile person"

Definition of Audile

1. n. One whose thoughts take the form of mental sounds or of internal discourse rather than of visual or motor images.

Definition of Audile

1. Adjective. Pertaining to hearing. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Audile

1. one whose mental imagery is chiefly auditory [n -S]

Medical Definition of Audile

1. 1. Relating to audition. 2. Denoting the type of mental imagery in which one recalls most readily that which has been heard rather than seen or read. Compare: motile, visile. Synonym: auditive. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Audile

audibilities audibility audible audibled audibleness audibles audibling audibly audience audience left

audience right audienceless audiences audient audients audile (current term) audiles auding audings audio

audio- audio-book audio-lingual audio-typist audio-typists audio-visual audio CD audio DVD audio DVDs audio amplifier

Literary usage of Audile

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Introduction to Experimental Education by Robert Robertson Rusk (1912)
"The visually-endowed individual confuses words which appear alike but sound different; the audile makes just the opposite mistake. ..."

2. Experimental Education by Robert Robertson Rusk (1919)
"The visually-endowed individual confuses words which appear alike but sound differently; the audile makes the opposite mistake. ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research by American Society for Psychical Research (1910)
"But wherever it is the dominant sense it subordinates the other sensory experiences to it in memory and thought. An audile, therefore, is one in whom ..."

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