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audile

American  
[aw-dil, -dahyl] / ˈɔ dɪl, -daɪl /

noun

Psychology.
  1. a person in whose mind auditory images, rather than visual or motor images, are predominant or unusually distinct.


audile British  
/ ˈɔːdɪl, ˈɔːdaɪl /

noun

  1. a person who possesses a faculty for auditory imagery that is more distinct than his visual or other imagery

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. of or relating to such a person

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of audile

First recorded in 1885–90; aud(itory) + -ile


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As a sonata is composed of a series of audile sensations called chords, a painting is composed of a series of visual sensations.

From Time Magazine Archive

The reason why more audile phenomena are perceived at night is that the percipient is tolerably still.

From Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men by John William Harris

Suppose the psychic is a visual and the communicator an audile, might not that difference make a marked difficulty in the adjustment necessary for communicating clearly?...

From The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal by Hereward Carrington

If the communicator is naturally a good visualizer this may help his visual communications, but impede the others; an audile might be better in some instances.

From The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal by Hereward Carrington

So that the "mixed type" is the only real type, the extreme visualist or audile, etc., being exceptional and not typical.

From Psychology A Study Of Mental Life by Robert S. Woodworth

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