Etymology

audiation

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Today it means: The comprehension and internal realization of music by an individual in the absence of any physical sound. Full definition →

First used 1970s
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The story

Presumably audio + -ation, coined by American music researcher and educator Edwin E. Gordon (1927–2015), possibly in Learning Sequence and Patterns in Music (1976).

First known use, by meaning

  • from 1970s The comprehension and internal realization of music by an individual in the absence of any physical sound.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.