Definition of Hearing

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Hearing

of Hear

The act or power of perceiving sound; perception of sound; the faculty or sense by which sound is perceived; as, my hearing is good.

Attention to what is delivered; opportunity to be heard; audience; as, I could not obtain a hearing.

A listening to facts and evidence, for the sake of adjudication; a session of a court for considering proofs and determining issues.

Extent within which sound may be heard; sound; earshot.

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Hearing Quotations

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
Peter Drucker

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
Sigmund Freud

Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
Walt Whitman

Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
Charles de Gaulle

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?
George Orwell

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
George Orwell

I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.
Vance Havner

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
William Wordsworth

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
J. K. Rowling

Hearing Translations

hearing in Dutch is gehoor
hearing in French is ouie, audience, oyant, entendant
hearing in Italian is ascolto

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