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ˈear-ˌminded, a. Psychol.
[f. ear n.1 + minded a.]
Having a marked tendency to carry on mental operations most readily by auditory images; thinking in sounds.
1888Pop. Sci. Monthly XXXIII. 604 Tests for distinguishing between an eye-minded and an ear-minded person..reveal whether the words are better apprehended by the eye or by the ear. 1900W. B. Secor in Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. XI. 228 Notwithstanding the fact that he was decidedly visual, he had a strong tendency to be ear-minded. 1901E. B. Titchener Exper. Psychol. I. i. 196 The purely ear-minded man would recognise persons, things and places by the sounds connected with them. 1925C. Fox Educational Psychol. iv. 76 Classification into ear-minded, eye-minded, etc.
Hence ˈear-ˌmindedness.
1888[see eye-mindedness s.v. eye n.1 28.] 1893Jrnl. Proc. & Addresses Nat. Educ. Assoc. U.S. XXXII. 780 Some..did show extreme eye-mindedness, and others..showed extreme ear-mindedness. 1902Baldwin Dict. Philos. II. 571 The varying prominence which visual and auditory and muscular processes occupy in different minds—eye-mindedness, ear-mindedness, motor-mindedness. |