audialize

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English

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Etymology

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

Verb

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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  []

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