Hearing

Hearing may refer to:

  • Hearing (sense), the sense by which sound is perceived
  • Hearing (person), a person who has hearing within normal parameters
  • Hearing (law), a legal proceeding before a court or other decision making body or officer
    • Preliminary hearing
  • Hearing impairment
  • United States congressional hearing

Famous quotes containing the word hearing:

    Dark night, that from the eye his function takes,
    The ear more quick of apprehension makes;
    Wherein it doth impair the seeing sense
    It pays the hearing double recompense.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    With all the gracious utterance thou hast
    Speak to his gentle hearing kind commends.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practised.
    Samuel Butler (1835–1902)