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audile

[ aw-dil, -dahyl ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Psychology.

a person in whose mind auditory images, rather than visual or motor images, are predominant or unusually distinct.

audile

/ ˈɔːdɪl; ˈɔːdaɪl /

a person who possesses a faculty for auditory imagery that is more distinct than his visual or other imagery

Origin of audile¹

First recorded in 1885–90; aud(itory) + -ile

Origin of audile¹

C19: from aud ( itory ) + -ile

So that the "mixed type" is the only real type, the extreme visualist or audile, etc., being exceptional and not typical.

The audile phenomena were so frequent and so various, that a conspectus of them is given in an appendix.

April 18, 2024petrichor

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