States and conditions
Synonyms for hearing
Synonyms for hearing: audience, audition, earshot and listening. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 4 synonyms for hearing
Interchangeable with hearing, one per sense
Audited under hearing's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one hearing carries in that sense.
- audiencenoun, in the sense "an opportunity to state your case and be heard"
- auditionnoun, in the sense "the ability to hear"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name hearing as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
two of these come from hearing's own entries in the bank, and two were audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
an opportunity to state your case and be heard
They condemned him without a hearing.
hearing in 2 more sentences, same sense
- The union demanded a hearing before the board could finalize the layoffs.
- The tenant wrote to the landlord requesting a hearing over the eviction notice.
How it behaves: In this sense hearing is usually a singular countable noun taking a or the, and often serves as the object of verbs like grant, request, deny, or hold in a formal or legal register.
The true synonym
audience
Same sentence, swapped: They condemned him without a audience.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- earshot
- opening
- crack
the ability to hear
His hearing was impaired.
The true synonym
audition
Same sentence, swapped: His audition was impaired.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for hearing in the sentence quoted.
- earshot
- sight
- taste
Where hearing turns up in the game
hearing is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where hearing is the trap
- eyesightnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is vision, in the sense "the ability to see", and hearing is on the board beside it.
- smellnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is look, in the sense "the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people", with hearing sitting one tile away.
Play hearing
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so hearing reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because states and conditions is the company hearing keeps.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. hearing carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.