单词 | audile |
释义 | audilen.adj. A. n. A person whose mental imagery or learning process is thought chiefly to involve the sense of hearing.Contrasted with motile, tactile, and visile. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > mental image > [noun] > one with predominant auditory response audile1886 audist1895 1886 J. Jacobs in Mind 11 415 This division of men into visuals, audiles, motiles, and indifferents, as we may respectively call them, is of great interest and importance. 1917 J. Adams Student's Guide 23 Some prefer to learn through the eye, others like to learn through the ear, still others through the sense of touch. The first kind are called visuals, the second audiles, the third tactiles. 1960 T. K. N. Menon & M. S. Patel Teaching of Eng. as Foreign Lang. (ed. 2) iv. 26 Galton classified individuals, with reference to the sense that dominated his memory, into visiles, audiles and kinaesthetic. 2009 J. Lawless Clearing Tangled Wood xi. 62 The suggestion that people can be divided into audiles and visiles has been disproved by psychologists. B. adj. Designating such a (type of) person. Also: aural or auditory, esp. as contrasted with visual. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > [adjective] > relating to hearing auditory1578 auditive1611 acroamatic1632 acoustic1635 audituala1652 acousticonc1660 auditorial1859 audile1897 the mind > mental capacity > psychology > mental image > [adjective] > audile ear-minded1888 audile1897 1897 19th Cent. Aug. 229 The [psychical] phenomena..may be dichotomised as (1) audile, (2) visual. The audile subdivide into (1) Footsteps. (2) Voices... (3) Raps [etc.]. 1909 Daily Chron. 22 Feb. 4/7 Unless you are a microcephalous idiot, you are either Audile, Motile, or Visile. 1913 R. Frost Let. 4 July in M. B. Anderson R. Frost & J. Bartlett (1963) 53 Those sounds are summoned by the audile imagination and they must be positive, strong, and definitely and unmistakeably indicated by the context. 1919 E. Barker in H. G. Wells Outl. Hist. xv. 86/2 Homer..is audile, not visual. 1956 H. Read Art of Sculpt. iv. 71 Thus there are visual types, tactile types, and audile types. 2006 S. G. Shoham Society & Absurd (ed. 2) v. 122 Visual and audile hallucinations are quite common in schizophrenia. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.1886 |
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