audile
Americannoun
noun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of audile
First recorded in 1885–90; aud(itory) + -ile
Vocabulary lists containing audile
Example Sentences
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As a sonata is composed of a series of audile sensations called chords, a painting is composed of a series of visual sensations.
From Time Magazine Archive
Suppose the psychic is a visual and the communicator an audile, might not that difference make a marked difficulty in the adjustment necessary for communicating clearly?...
From The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal by Carrington, Hereward
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.
From The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal by Carrington, Hereward
The audile phenomena were so frequent and so various, that a conspectus of them is given in an appendix.
From The Alleged Haunting of B—— House by Goodrich-Freer, A.
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.
From The Mind and Its Education by Betts, George Herbert
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