auditive
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of auditive
1400–50; late Middle English auditif (< Middle French ) < Medieval Latin audītīvus, equivalent to Latin audīt ( us ) past participle of audīre to hear + -īvus -ive
Vocabulary lists containing auditive
Example Sentences
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Simply because our auditive perception has assumed the habit of saturating itself with visual images.
From Bergson and His Philosophy by Gunn, John Alexander
According to Hensen, certain Crustacea on sloughing spontaneously introduce fine grains of sand as auditive stones into their otolith vesicle.
From Popular scientific lectures by Mach, Ernst
In the belief that the entire labyrinth was an auditive organ, Helmholtz, contrary to the results of his own masterly analysis, originally sought to interpret another part of the labyrinth as the organ of noises.
From Popular scientific lectures by Mach, Ernst
Be this last as it may, it is certain that the emotion connected with the word Beautiful can be evoked by that word alone, and without an accompanying act of visual or auditive perception.
From The Beautiful An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics by Lee, Vernon
That these differences may be due not only to the degree of thought intensity, but also to the nature of the thought itself, according as it is visual, auditive, or motor.
From The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal by Carrington, Hereward
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