hearing

adjective more hearing · most hearing

1. Able to hear, as opposed to deaf. Deaf people often must deal with hearing people.

Opposite: deaf, nonhearing

noun hearings

1. uncountable The sense used to perceive sound. My hearing isn't what it used to be, but I still heard that noise.

   Similar: audition

2. uncountable The distance or physical region within which something may be heard; earshot. She moved out of hearing and I lost the end of the sentence.
3. countable Something heard; a report or piece of news. More evidence followed. Evidence as to the financial difficulties in which the prisoner had found himself at the end of July. Evidence as to his intrigue with Mrs. Raikes—poor Mary, that must have been bitter hearing for a woman of her pride.
4. countable The act by which something is heard; the act of perceiving by sound or the auditory sense. To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings, hearings, smellings, chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires […]
5. uncountable A proceeding at which discussions are heard. There will be a public hearing to discuss the new traffic light.
6. countable A legal procedure done before a judge, without a jury, as with an evidentiary hearing. Next month, Clemons will be brought before a court presided over by a "special master", who will review the case one last time. The hearing will be unprecedented in its remit, but at its core will be a simple issue: should Reggie Clemons live or die?
7. countable, dated, informal, uncountable A scolding.

verb

1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of hear