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audiations

audiations is the plural of audiation.

Meaning of audiation

Noun

audiation (countable and uncountable, plural audiations)

  1. The comprehension and internal realization of music by an individual in the absence of any physical sound.
    • Audiation takes place when one hears music through recall or creation (the sound not being physically present) and infers musical meaning as compared to aural perception where one listens to music actually being performed.1976, Edwin E. Gordon, “Development of the Taxonomies”, in Tonal and Rhythm Patterns: An Objective Analysis: A Taxonomy of Tonal Patterns and Rhythm Patterns and Seminal Experimental Evidence of...

Questions about audiations

What is audiations the plural of?
Audiations is the plural of audiation.

Words near audiations in the dictionary

  1. audiate
  2. audiated
  3. audiates
  4. audiating
  5. audiation
  6. audiations
  7. audibilise
  8. audibilised
  9. audibilises
  10. audibilising
  11. audibilities

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