active listening

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active listening (uncountable)

  1. The process of attending carefully to what a speaker is saying, involving such techniques as accurately paraphrasing the speaker's remarks.
    • 1999, Deborah Antai-Otong, “Active listening at Work”, in The American Journal of Nursing, volume 99, number 2, page 24L:
      Active listening involves all of the senses, not just hearing.

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