ear-minded

[eer-mahyn-did]

adjective

1. tending to perceive one's environment in terms of sound and to recall sounds more vividly than sights, smells, etc.

Other Word Forms

• ear-mindedness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of ear-minded¹

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

And in the nineteen-nineties, she began teaching “deep-listening” retreats for “ear-minded people.”

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This brilliancy of male plumage in the presence of the somber color of his mate would seem to indicate that the English sparrow is eye-minded rather than ear-minded.

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Now, most of the sparrows seem to be ear-minded, at least as far as their recognition of their mates are concerned.

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But Madam English Sparrow was apparently eye-minded rather than ear-minded.

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Now as compared with the typical novelist, the poet is surely, like the orator, "ear-minded."

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