auditive
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of auditive
1400–50; late Middle English auditif (< Middle French ) < Medieval Latin audītīvus, equivalent to Latin audīt ( us ) past participle of audīre to hear + -īvus -ive
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He is not "auditive"; like Loti and the Goncourts, he writes for the eye.
From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by James Huneker
Simply because our auditive perception has assumed the habit of saturating itself with visual images.
From Bergson and His Philosophy by John Alexander Gunn
The eye and the ear are not merely means of perception, for in that case there could be no visual and no auditive arts.
From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Benedetto Croce
Be this last as it may, it is certain that the emotion connected with the word Beautiful can be evoked by that word alone, and without an accompanying act of visual or auditive perception.
From The Beautiful An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics by Vernon Lee
According to Hensen, certain Crustacea on sloughing spontaneously introduce fine grains of sand as auditive stones into their otolith vesicle.
From Popular scientific lectures by Ernst Mach
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