Audience vs Audient - What's the difference?
audience | audient |
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Luke VII:
A group of people within hearing; specifically a group of people listening to a performance, speech etc.; the crowd seeing a stage performance.
* , chapter=3
, title= A formal meeting with a state or religious dignitary.
The readership of a book or other written publication.
A following.
Listening]], [[pay attention, paying attention.
* Elizabeth Browning
* H.P. Lovecraft
As nouns the difference between audience and audient
is that audience is hearing; the condition or state of hearing or listening while audient is a hearer; especially, a catechumen in the early Church.As an adjective audient is
listening, paying attention.audience
English
Noun
(en noun)- When he had ended all his sayinges in the audience of the people, he entred into Capernaum.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}
- We joined the audience just as the lights went down.
Usage notes
* In some dialects, audience is used as a plurale tantum. *: The audience are getting restless.Synonyms
* * (group of people seeing a performance) spectators, crowdDerived terms
() * intended audience * target audienceExternal links
* (wikipedia "audience") ----audient
English
Adjective
(-)- Audient souls.
- Nyarlathotep...the crawling chaos...I am the last... I will tell the audient void...