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audialize

audialize verb: to form a mental representation of what something sounds like.

Verb

audialize (third-person singular simple present audializes, present participle audializing, simple past and past participle audialized)

  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 […]2019, Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard, Mads Walther-Hansen, Martin Knakkergaard, The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 91
    Synonyms:
    auralize, audiate

Synonyms of audialize

Forms of audialize

third-person singular presentaudializes
present participleaudializing
past participleaudialized
pastaudialized

Origin of audialize

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

Questions about audialize

What does audialize mean?
Audialize means to form a mental representation of what something sounds like.
What part of speech is audialize?
Audialize is a verb.
What is the past tense of audialize?
The past tense of audialize is audialized.

Words near audialize in the dictionary

  1. audial
  2. audialise
  3. audialised
  4. audialises
  5. audialising
  6. audialize
  7. audialized
  8. audializes
  9. audializing
  10. audially
  11. Audian

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