auditory

Speech parts

1. auditory - Noun

2. auditory - Adjective

Meaning

Of or pertaining to hearing, or to the sense or organs of hearing; as, the auditory nerve. See Ear.

An assembly of hearers; an audience.

An auditorium.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

auditive audile parquet sound clear sonic auditorium distinct audience visual hearing acoustic listening sensory phonetic
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Antonyms

earless stone-deaf deafened profoundly deaf cloth-eared illustrations
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Phrases with the word

auditory ossicles auditory science auditory passage auditory channel auditory duct external auditory

Examples

Consonant intervals and dissonant intervals are processed via separate mechanisms in the auditory cortex. Daniel Levitin

Current concern with reading and spelling reform steers away from visual to auditory stress. Marshall McLuhan

Applied knowledge in the Renaissance had to take the form of translation of the auditory into visual terms, of the plastic into retinal form. Marshall McLuhan

The telephone is virtual reality in that you can meet with someone as if you are together, at least for the auditory sense. Ray Kurzweil

The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness. Robert Delaunay

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language. Steven Pinker

Close letter words and terms

auditorium for musical performances auditorium for performances auditorship auditory agnosia auditory aphasia auditory apparatus