vidience

vidience noun: a group of observers.

Noun

vidience (plural vidiences)

(rare) A group of observers.
- During the season of my second visit, the receipts of Brigham’s theater averaged eight hundred dollars per night; and one evening they reached thirteen hundred dollars. Mrs. Julia Dean Cooper was filling a long star engagement at two hundred dollars per night. At first she found the audiences, or...[1867, Albert D[eane] Richardson, chapter XXX, in Beyond the Mississippi: From the Great River to the Great Ocean. […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company. […], page 358
- There was not even a referee, no seconds, no bottle-holder—barring one of the combatants—no reporters, no audience, not even a vidience.1894, Kate Sanborn, “Help!”, in Abandoning an Adopted Farm, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton and Company, page 71

At first she found the audiences, or as Gail Hamilton would call them, the vidiences, curiously fresh and inexperienced.[1867, Albert D[eane] Richardson, chapter XXX, in Beyond the Mississippi: From the Great River to the Great Ocean. […], Hartford, Conn....
It is very easy to see what a help to a vidience the caste can be, especially in some very heavy drama or costume play, which requires close attention to understand.1912 September, Raymond L. Schrock, “Reflections of the Critic”, in The Photoplay Magazine, volume III, number 2, Chicago, Ill.: A. H....
Eickhoff has coined us a new word, Vidience, designating a body of persons who “hear” by means of sight.[1914 February, Petra T. Fandrem, “Exchanges”, in Silent Worker, volume XXVI, number 5, Trenton, N.J., page 97, column 1:
However, the house was jammed to the last inch, and apparently the audience or vidience loved it. […] With reference to the word vidience, which, at the suggestion of Mr.1925 August, William Lyon Phelps, “As I Like It”, in Scribner’s Magazine, volume LXXVIII, number 2, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s...

plural	vidiences

From Latin vidēre (“to see”), by analogy with audience from Latin audīre (“to hear”).

What does vidience mean?: Vidience means a group of observers.
How do you use vidience in a sentence?: At first she found the audiences, or as Gail Hamilton would call them, the vidiences, curiously fresh and inexperienced.
What part of speech is vidience?: Vidience is a noun.
What is the plural of vidience?: The plural of vidience is vidiences.

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