Citations:audiation

English citations of audiation

1. (nonce word) The act of a person hearing what he or she is personally saying and simultaneously observing others hearing it.
   • 1930 May 8, H[arry] S[tack] Sullivan, “Socio-psychiatric Research: Its Implications for the Schizophrenia Problem and for Mental Hygiene”, in The American Journal of Psychiatry, volume 87, number 6, published 1931, →DOI, pages 977–991; reprinted in Schizophrenia as a Human Process: With Introduction and Commentaries by Helen Swick Perry, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, 1962, →OCLC, page 257:

     […] I say, this personality "telling you" about the socio-psychiatric viewpoint is not conceived by me to be limited to the individual standing and talking here, but rather is primarily limited by the length, breadth, mental and physical thickness, number, interest, motivation, friendly and unfriendly feeling-tones, and so on and so forth of each one and every one of you in significant relation with me as auditor to my audiation. [Footnote: "Audiation" is undoubtedly Sullivan's own word, deliberately manufactured for the particular meaning here of the speaker hearing his own audition as well as participantly observing the hearing of it by others. H[elen] S[wick] P[erry].]