audialize
English
Etymology
audial + -ize, on the model of visualize.
Verb
audialize (third-person singular simple present audializes, present participle audializing, simple past and past participle audialized)
- To form a mental representation of what something sounds like.
- Synonym: auralize
- 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 visualize