audile
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A person who mainly remembers or imagines sounds
- noun
- /ˈɔːdaɪl/
- Specialized
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auditivo
- As an audile, he could recall every note of the song without seeing the sheet music.
Examples
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Many audiles find it easier to remember information when it is presented in spoken form.
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An audile often prefers listening to music or audiobooks over reading.
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Visual orientation seems to predominate among persons in our culture; audile and tactile thinking is less common.
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In the letter to John Bartlett where Frost invokes the powers of the "audile imagination" to summon "sentence sound," he gives as an example the following: #
Academic text (2016)
Surface Forms
Etymology
Audile comes from the Latin word audire, 'to hear', the same root you see in audio and audible. So an audile is a person who thinks mostly in sounds or who learns best by listening.
