Definition of "listenings" [listenings]

• Plural form of listening. (noun)

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• "Learn the language, naturally: Family M-mv memorizes wide swaths of Shakespeare through repeated viewings and readings i.e., "listenings"."
• "It takes a couple viewings/listenings to appreciate — or even distinguish — its songs."
• "So if the poem by Wallace Stevens or Marianne Moore sounds great, is amusing or engaging or spooky in a way that we like … then like the devotee of opera or rap music or rock music, we are happy to understand only gradually, over many listenings."