Definition of subaudition
: the act of understanding or supplying something not expressed : a reading between the lines
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Origin and Etymology of subaudition
Late Latin subaudition-, subauditio, from subaudire to understand, from Latin sub- + audire to hear — more at audible
First Known Use: 1615
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