audialize

English

Etymology

From audial +‎ -ize, on the model of visualize.

Verb

audialize (third-person singular simple present audializes, present participle audializing, simple past and past participle audialized)

1. To form a mental representation of what something sounds like.

   Synonyms: auralize, audiate

   • 2019, Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard, Mads Walther-Hansen, Martin Knakkergaard, The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 91:

     Like imagining in general, audializing is quasi-perceptual and nonpositing; that is, audialized contents are taken as irreal and as intuitively characterized by quasi-auditory properties. When I audialize, for instance, the opening piano part of  […]

Coordinate terms

• see list in visualise

See also

• audibilize