Audient

/ˈɔː.dɪ.ənt/ · adjective

Meaning

Listening, paying attention..

Definitions by Sense

1. Listening, paying attention.
2. (uncommon) A hearer; a member of an audience.
3. (obsolete, specifically) A catechumen (“convert to Christianity under instruction before baptism”) in the early Christian Church.

Example Sentences

The prosochist is that person whom the noun itself designates by means of an audient intonation, an audient indication, or an audient comma, as the paricular individual to whose notice the par-e-theme presents the different objects mntioned, or implied, in the sentence; as, Master, I have brought unto thee my son. (Master.)

And, as we sate, we felt the old earth spin, / And all the starry turbulence of worlds / Swing round us in their audient circles, till / If that same golden moon were overhead / Or if beneath our feet, we did not know.

Nyarlathotep … the crawling chaos … I am the last … I will tell the audient void …

The audients of her ſad ſtorie, felt great motions both of pitie and admiration for her miſfortunes: […]

Let me not ſee you act now, / In your Scholaſticke way, you brought to towne wi'yee, / With ſee ſaw ſacke a downe, like a Sawyer; / Nor in a Comicke Scene, play Hercules furens, / Tearing your throat to ſplit the Audients eares.

In each case, an individual author confronts an individual responder, an ‘audient’, with a single artistic construct. (Even in co-written books, there is a unified authorship, and even in communal play-going, the experience involves a discrete work presented in a discrete form to a discrete ‘audient’.)

Fifty-five minutes later, the audience demanded encores and were rewarded with a little more Mario and the mellow tones of Jimmy Smith and Reuben Wilson. ‘I loved it’, said one audient, as she filed out of the auditorium at the end of the show. ‘Where did you get the idea?’

I came to understand that the performance experience is a process whereby we forge an adaptable dialogue between audient and performer, a communal conversation: “in performance, the audience is present and interacting with the creators during the creative process itself.[…]” (Sawyer 2006, 7). […] A truly remarkable work, tend is a piece that I hope one day to experience as an audient. […] In fully acknowledging the audient as an active participant it explores the beauty of the human form through human interactions and urges us all to search for common ground and empathy.

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