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auditive

auditive

9.2
Relating to the sense of hearing and how people hear sounds
  • adjective
  • /ˈɔːdɪtɪv/
  • Specialized
translation icon : auditivo
  • The teacher used an auditive approach to help students improve their listening skills during the lesson.

Examples

  • Issacharoff's answer to "what is dialogue?" echoes Beckett's Not I: "one concrete, actualized voice and an auditive presence" (325).

    Academic text (1992)

  • The first domain, conceptual consciousness, consists of passive vocabulary and critical listening, while the second domain, language consciousness, consists of sound and rhyme, hearing the first and last words, auditive synthesis, and writing orientation.

    Academic text (2014)

  • This line of research benefited from Eduard Sievers's ideas on "auditive philology" (Oherenphilologie) and those of the French experimental school (Paul Verrier, by E. W. Landry), as well as English works on Scripture.

    Academic text (2003)

  • For learners with auditive strengths, activities that involve listening to music can enhance their language acquisition.

  • The auditive signals from the concert hall allowed the audience to fully appreciate the musicians' performance.

Synonyms

auditory
vsauditive
  • Specialized
28 5.2

Relating to hearing or the way people hear sounds

emphasizes the process as well as the sensory aspect
aural
vsauditive
4 5.9

About hearing or the sense of the ear

focuses on the general sense or process rather than anatomy
audile
vsauditive
  • Specialized
9.9

About hearing or the ability to hear sounds

is the same meaning but presented in the alternate form

Surface Forms

auditive positive

Morphology

auditive = audit (opaque) = audit + ive

Although the form is audit + -ive, modern English 'audit' primarily means inspecting accounts, so knowing 'audit' will not reliably lead learners to 'relating to hearing'.

Etymology

The word auditive comes from the Latin word audire, which means 'to hear', and you can see the same root in audio and audible. So auditive is about the sense or process of hearing.