The process of listening and comprehending spoken language; the auditory equivalent of reading that involves decoding and understanding sound.
A neologism created in the mid-20th century by analogy with 'reading' and 'writing'—formed from 'audit' or 'audition' plus -ing. Part of modern language pedagogy terminology.
Auding is a linguist's attempt to create a word parallel to 'reading'—if reading is visual decoding, auding is auditory decoding, but the word never quite caught on the way reading did.
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