audition vs listening

audition

noun
  • An act of hearing; being heard. 

  • A performance, by an aspiring performer, to demonstrate suitability or talent. 

  • Something heard. 

  • The sense of hearing. 

verb
  • To evaluate one or more performers in through an audition. 

  • To take part in such a performance. 

listening

noun
  • Action of the verb listening 

  • Skill or ability of perceiving spoken language. 

  • An educational exercise involving listening 

adj
  • Of an action that is performed with caution and attention to sounds. 

  • Of something that is used in order to hear or to improve the ability to hear. 

  • Of something or someone that listens. 

How often have the words audition and listening occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )