as in auditory
of, relating to, or experienced through the sense of hearing
a specialist in audial disorders in children
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Recent Examples of audial
With two stages set up in close proximity, as soon as one band finished, another would fire up immediately, a sort of audial game of hot potato.
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Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 15 June 2023
With Windows 11, the OS adds new audial and visual tools, and new support for third-party hardware and software.
—Michael Muchmore, PCMAG, 7 June 2022
Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 15 June 2023
With Windows 11, the OS adds new audial and visual tools, and new support for third-party hardware and software.
—Michael Muchmore, PCMAG, 7 June 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for audial
auditory
Adjective
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Whitford and his colleagues’ new research helps clarify one possible mechanism for schizophrenia’s auditory hallucinations, says Albert Powers, a psychiatrist at the Yale School of Medicine, who wasn’t involved in the study.—
Hannah Seo,
Scientific American,
10 Nov. 2025
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Associated with auditory and visual perception, short-term memory, musical rhythm, and speech.—
Sarah Bence,
Verywell Health,
6 Nov. 2025
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“Audial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/audial. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.
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