EAR-MINDED Definition & Meaning

ear-minded

[ eer-mahyn-did ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

tending to perceive one's environment in terms of sound and to recall sounds more vividly than sights, smells, etc.

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Other 51�Թ� Forms

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of ear-minded¹

First recorded in 1885–90

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And in the nineteen-nineties, she began teaching “deep-listening” retreats for “ear-minded people.”

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This brilliancy of male plumage in the presence of the somber color of his mate would seem to indicate that the English sparrow is eye-minded rather than ear-minded.

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Now, most of the sparrows seem to be ear-minded, at least as far as their recognition of their mates are concerned.

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But Madam English Sparrow was apparently eye-minded rather than ear-minded.

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Now as compared with the typical novelist, the poet is surely, like the orator, "ear-minded."

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