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auditory

auditory

28 5.2
Relating to hearing or the way people hear sounds
  • adjective
  • /ˈɔːdɪtɔri/
  • Specialized
translation icon : auditivo
  • The purpose of these two studies was to examine the effects of auditory distraction on typical young adults.
  • auditory distraction
  • auditory feedback
  • auditory acuity

And they say that people either they're very auditory or visual or physical.

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Examples

  • Sir, I need an auditory response!

  • We'll run an auditory exam as soon as you and Amara get some rest.

  • OK, back to auditory alarm calls.

  • This afford us full access to their vision and auditory senses.

  • And these were folks who had a very profound auditory imagination.

  • So right now you're having a visual experience of this room, an auditory experience of my voice speaking to you.

  • In the present study, we further investigated the role of auditory acuity in speech.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Perhaps the most common are the auditory, visual, and kinesthetic learning modes.

    Academic text (2011)
  • We hear voices of the past, auditory memories conjured up by each stick of furniture.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • The teacher used music to enhance the auditory learning experience of her students.

Synonyms

aural
vsauditory
4 5.9

About hearing or the sense of the ear

focuses on general hearing rather than physical ear aspects
auricular
vsauditory
  • Specialized
1 8.8

Relating to the ear or to hearing

emphasizes the hearing sense rather than physical ear or shape
audile
vsauditory
  • Specialized
9.9

About hearing or the ability to hear sounds

focuses on the general sense rather than the process
auditive
vsauditory
  • Specialized
9.2

Relating to the sense of hearing and how people hear sounds

is the general sense form rather than stressing the process

Compounds

3 7.9

Hearing voices or sounds that are not there

auditory cortex
  • Specialized
1 6.0

Part of the brain that handles sounds from the ears like speech or music

auditory nerve
  • Specialized
1 4.5

A nerve that carries sound and balance signals from the inner ear to the brain

auditory system
  • Specialized
1 3.9

Body parts like the ear and nerves that let you hear

auditory canal
  • Specialized
1 4.9

A tube in the outer ear that leads to the eardrum

auditory perception
  • Specialized
1 4.5

The ability to hear and understand sounds

auditory sense
  • Specialized
1 3.7

To hear sounds with your ears

auditory meatus
  • Specialized
1 8.6

A passage in the outer ear from the ear opening to the eardrum

auditory sensation
  • Specialized
6.8

A sound you notice with your hearing

auditory tube
  • Specialized
5.3

A tube that connects the middle ear to the back of the nose to make ear pressure the same

auditory aphasia
  • Specialized
9.9

A condition that makes it hard to understand spoken language despite normal hearing due to brain damage

auditory agnosia
  • Specialized
9.1

A condition where a person can hear sounds but cannot understand spoken words

auditory apparatus
  • Specialized
6.5

The parts of the ear that receive sound and send it to the brain

auditory area
  • Specialized
6.6

The part of the brain that receives and processes sound

auditory center
  • Specialized
5.2

The part of the brain at the side of the head that processes sounds from the ear

Sounds you hear to share information

9.7

A condition of very sensitive hearing that makes normal sounds feel too loud

auditory image
  • Specialized
7.3

A sound that you imagine in your mind as if you hear it

auditory modality
  • Specialized
5.6

The ability to hear sounds through the ears

auditory ossicle
  • Specialized
7.7

A very small bone in the middle ear that helps carry sound to the inner ear

5.3

A tube in the outer ear that leads to the eardrum

7.5

A small blood vessel that brings blood to the inner ear

6.1

A blood vessel that carries blood away from the inner ear

How Perceptual

psychoacoustic
  • Specialized
8.6
perceptual
  • Specialized
13 6.9
auditory
  • Specialized
28 5.2
acoustic
65 4.7

Surface Forms

auditory positive

Morphology

auditory = audio (transparent) = audio + ory

The adjective is directly formed from 'audio' with the adjectival suffix '-ory' (minor orthographic change), so learners who know 'audio' can infer 'auditory'.

Etymology

Auditory comes from the Latin root aud-, from audire which means 'to hear', and the same root appears in audio and audience, so auditory means 'relating to hearing'.