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Auditory image   /ˈɔdɪtˌɔri ˈɪmədʒ/   Listen
Auditory image

noun
1.
A mental image that is similar to an auditory perception.





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"Auditory image" Quotes from Famous Books



... differing with the mental make-up of the reader, but the meaning cannot be equated to the imagery. For example, you and I both understand the word "ocean"; but when I read the word, I get a visual image of green water and sunlight, while you perhaps get an auditory image of the sound of the waves as they break upon the shore. Sound, meaning, feeling, these are the essential constituents of discourse; imagery is variable and accidental. It is impossible, therefore, to found the theory of poetry on the image-making power of words. [Footnote: For the opposite ...
— The Principles Of Aesthetics • Dewitt H. Parker
... set up contradict experience.—The unity of the soul forces representations to act on one another. Disparate representations, those, that is, which belong to different representative series, as the visual image of a rose and the auditory image of the word rose, or as the sensations yellow, hard, round, ringing, connected in the concept gold piece, enter into complications [complexes]. Homogeneous representations (the memory image and the perceptual image of a black poodle) fuse ...
— History Of Modern Philosophy - From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time • Richard Falckenberg


Words linked to "Auditory image" :   mental image, image


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