Hearing

Quick meaning: Hearing is an adjective meaning Able to hear, as opposed to deaf.

Meaning

Able to hear, as opposed to deaf.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable) The sense used to perceive sound.
2. (uncountable) The distance or physical region within which something may be heard; earshot.
3. (countable) Something heard; a report or piece of news.
4. (countable) The act by which something is heard; the act of perceiving by sound or the auditory sense.
5. (uncountable) A proceeding at which discussions are heard.
6. (countable, law) A legal procedure done before a judge, without a jury, as with an evidentiary hearing.
7. (informal, dated) A scolding.

Example Sentences

Deaf people often must deal with hearing people.

There will be a public hearing to discuss the new traffic light.

My hearing isn't what it used to be, but I still heard that noise.

To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings, hearings, smellings, chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires […]

Word Forms

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Synonyms for hearing

Depending on context, synonyms include audition, audience, earshot, listening.

Antonyms for hearing

Common opposites include deaf, nonhearing.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include listening, audition, audience, earshot, auditory, aural.

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