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Audition   /ɑdˈɪʃən/   Listen
Audition

noun
1.
The ability to hear; the auditory faculty.  Synonyms: auditory modality, auditory sense, hearing, sense of hearing.
2.
A test of the suitability of a performer.  Synonym: tryout.
verb
1.
Perform in order to get a role.  Synonym: try out.



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"Audition" Quotes from Famous Books



... directions; no nystagmus nor strabismus. Vision—20/30 in each eye, improved by glasses. Skin of vitreous clear; slight weakness of external recti; cornea clear; field of vision normal for white; both fundi normal except for slight hyperaemia. Smell, taste, audition, and speech unimpaired. ...
— Studies in Forensic Psychiatry • Bernard Glueck

... more wonderful than can be formed by sounds, and this perhaps comes nearest to the expression necessary for depicting the vision of the soul; but it cannot be held or described, it is quickly drowned by the physical sense of audition. As the Glamour of Symbolism can only be transmitted to one who has passed the portal of Symbolic Thought, the Rapture of Music can only be truly understood by one who has already experienced it, and the Ideal of Art requires a true artistic temperament to comprehend it, so it is, ...
— Science and the Infinite - or Through a Window in the Blank Wall • Sydney T. Klein



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