auding

noun

aud·​ing ˈȯ-diŋ 

: the process of hearing, recognizing, and interpreting spoken language

Word History

Etymology

aud- (in auditory entry 2) + -ing entry 1

Note: The term was introduced by the California educator Don Brown; its first use by Brown in a publication was perhaps in "Teaching Aural English," English Journal, vol. 43 (September, 1950), pp. 128-36, though it was reported earlier from an unpublished manuscript (see H. A. Anderson, "Educational News and Editorial Comment," The School Review, vol 57, no. 2 [February, 1949], p. 66). Brown's intention was apparently to have a word that bore the same relation to hearing and listening as reading does to seeing and looking.

First Known Use

1949, in the meaning defined above