Audialize

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To form a mental representation of what something sounds like.

    "Like imagining in general, audializing is quasi-perceptual and nonpositing; that is, audialized contents are taken as irreal and as intuitively characterized by quasi-auditory properties. When I audialize, for instance, the opening piano part of […]"

Example

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"Like imagining in general, audializing is quasi-perceptual and nonpositing; that is, audialized contents are taken as irreal and as intuitively characterized by quasi-auditory properties. When I audialize, for instance, the opening piano part of […]"

Etymology

From audial + -ize, on the model of visualize.

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