1. auditory - Noun
2. auditory - Adjective
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 dictionaryConsonant 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