audile
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Irregular formation from Latin audire + -ilis. By surface analysis, audio + -ile.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]audile (plural audiles)
- A person whose mental imagery consists of sounds.
Translations
[edit]a person whose mental imagery consists of sounds
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Adjective
[edit]audile (comparative more audile, superlative most audile)
- Pertaining to hearing.
- 1973: I listened carefully to my audile memory, recalling the exact noise of the shot. — Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me (Penguin 2001, p. 93)
- 1976 December 25, Rudy Kikel, quoting Stephanie Byrd, “A Theory of Erotic Devices or The Lady and the Beast”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 26, page 18:
- At Indiana University, we were encouraged to read Latin, Greek, German, you know all those things, aloud. That's one of the things I liked about studying languages, that I could actually read them aloud, hear them, experience them on an audile level.