Hearing but NOT Listening...

Hearing is a physical process. That means the sound stimulus is recognized by your brain but was not processed. Your brain didn't create a response. Listening is an active process. When you listen, you understand. The brain responded to the stimulus and created a response.

Hearing is simply the act of perceiving sound by the ear. If you are not hearing-impaired, hearing simply happens. Listening, however, is something you consciously choose to do. Listening requires concentration so that your brain processes meaning from words and sentences. Listening leads to learning. Most people tend to be "hard of listening" rather than "hard of hearing."

Hearing is different then listening. Listening requires intent and that you actually want to pay attention to the person speaking. Hearing is just a sense. You can not avoid hearing. Although at times you wish you could.

It's totally different though synonymous. Hearing is just using your ears to grasp the sound that you hear outside your ears, listening is interpreting the sound you hear by hearing. To make it deeper, listening is better than hearing because you understand the needs that you need to act upon when you listen. The best thing is to hear and to listen then act if you need to act.

My understanding is that hearing is just the process of actually hearing sounds, whereas in order to listen you really need to be paying attention and processing what you hear. For example, if you're sitting on the phone and all of a sudden you realize that you were spacing out and you have no idea what the person on the other end is talking about, you weren't listening but your body was still hearing them talk. Hope that makes sense!

I agree with the first response for the most part. Hearing is the literal act of something going through your ear and the process of the brain recognizing the noise. Listening is actually putting in the effort to concentrate on people's words, sounds or other utterances to make a form of emotional and direct connection with a person or thing.