audiocentrism
Etymology
From audio + -centrism.
audiocentrism means A focus on sound and hearing (often to the detriment of deaf individuals). Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 99 out of 100.
Why this word is great
AUDIOCENTRISM — [Noun] The systemic privileging of hearing and auditory communication as normative, often rendering non-auditory modes of perception as marginal or deficient. From the Latin-derived combining form audio- (pertaining to hearing) and -centrism (from Greek kentron, meaning 'center', forming nouns denoting a focus on a specified thing). Unlike "audism," which denotes active prejudice against deaf individuals, or "visuocentrism," which elevates the visual realm, audiocentrism is the ambient architecture of assumption—the default setting of a world built for the ear. It is the silent-film intertitle treated as a primitive antecedent to "real" talkies; the isolating warmth of a family dinner where laughter is a vibration felt but not deciphered; and the bureaucratic insistence that a telephone call is the only valid proof of identity. It builds a world whose architecture, by default, has no doors for those who navigate by touch, by sight, or by vibration—a quiet tyranny that mistakes one sense for the whole of consciousness.
noun
- A focus on sound and hearing (often to the detriment of deaf individuals).“Opening act Color Me Badd provided a similarly radical undermining of the tyranny of audiocentrism.”