audient

Meanings

Plural: audients

Adj

Listening, paying attention.

Noun

A hearer; a member of an audience.
A catechumen (“convert to Christianity under instruction before baptism”) in the early Christian Church.

Origin / Etymology

Borrowed from Latin audientem, accusative singular of audiēns (“hearing, listening; attending, paying attention to”) (or directly from audiēns), the present active participle of audiō (“to hear, listen to; to attend, pay attention to”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewis (“clearly, manifestly”) (from *h₂ew- (“to perceive, see”)) + *dʰh₁-ye/o- (“to render”).
The noun may be borrowed from Late Latin audiēns (“catechumen”), from the participle audiēns.

Synonyms

attentive, reckful

Scrabble Score: 8

audient is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
audient is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
audient is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 10

audient is a valid Words With Friends word