audile

[ aw-dil, -dahyl ]

noun

, Psychology.

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

audile

/ ˈɔːdɪl; ˈɔːdaɪl /

noun

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

adjective

1. of or relating to such a person

Word History and Origins

Origin of audile¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of audile¹

C19: from aud ( itory ) + -ile

Example Sentences

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

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If the communicator is naturally a good visualizer this may help his visual communications, but impede the others; an audile might be better in some instances.

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Is appeal made to more than one sense, i.e., audile, visual, tactile, muscular?

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Earlier pedagogical works spoke of the visual type of mind, or the audile type, or the motor type, as if the possession of one kind of imagery necessarily rendered a person short in other types.

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

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Related Words

• audible
• aural