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active listening

active listening noun: the process of attending carefully to what a speaker is saying, involving such techniques as accurately paraphrasing the speaker's remarks.

Noun

active listening (uncountable)

  1. The process of attending carefully to what a speaker is saying, involving such techniques as accurately paraphrasing the speaker's remarks.
    • Active listening involves all of the senses, not just hearing.1999, Deborah Antai-Otong, “Active listening at Work”, in The American Journal of Nursing, volume 99, number 2, page 24L

active listening meaning in Tamil

active listening in Tamil

உற்சாகமாக கவனித்தல், தீர்க்கமாக கவனித்தல்

Questions about active listening

What does active listening mean?
Active listening means the process of attending carefully to what a speaker is saying, involving such techniques as accurately paraphrasing the speaker's remarks.
What is active listening in Tamil?
Active listening in Tamil is உற்சாகமாக கவனித்தல், தீர்க்கமாக கவனித்தல். See Active listening meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is active listening?
Active listening is a noun.

Words near active listening in the dictionary

  1. active ingredient
  2. active ingredients
  3. active learning
  4. active lidar
  5. active lidars
  6. active listening
  7. active material
  8. active materials
  9. active matrices
  10. active matrix
  11. active matrixes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: active listening (page history and authors); active listening (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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