audialize

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verb

To form a mental representation of what something sounds like.

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auralizeaudiate
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Meanings

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

present singular third person audializes · participle present audializing · participle past audialized · past audialized

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

    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 […]

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

    Synonyms: auralize, audiate

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo form a mental representation of what something sounds like.

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auralizeaudiate
Also see
audiolizeauralize

Origin

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

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Cite this entry
APA

audialize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/audialize

MLA

“audialize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/audialize. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “audialize,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/audialize.

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