Hearing

Hearing , via Middle High German gehoerde ("hearing, hearing, hearing sense") linguistically derived from hearing , denotes:

• a sensory perception of living beings with which sound can be perceived, see auditory perception
• the entirety of the elements required for auditory perception (in humans: the sensory organ of the ear in combination with hearing processing )
• general attention, listening , being heard
• the right to be heard in legal language, see right to be heard
• a special musical talent in music, see perfect pitch (pitch memory)

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.