absolute pitch

1. 1.

   the ability to identify the pitch of a tone

   Synonymsperfect pitch

   Broaderhearing

Questions about absolute pitch

What does absolute pitch mean?

absolute pitch means "the ability to identify the pitch of a tone".

What is another word for absolute pitch?

Close synonyms include perfect pitch. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is absolute pitch a common word?

absolute pitch is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.