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active listening

noun

active listening

noun
1

The process of attending carefully to what a speaker is saying, involving such techniques as accurately paraphrasing the speaker's remarks.

  • Active listening involves all of the senses, not just hearing.1999, Deborah Antai-Otong, “Active listening at Work”, in The American Journal of Nursing, volume 99, number 2, page 24L:

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