as in acoustical
of, relating to, or experienced through the sense of hearing
I have a bad auditory memory—unless I see a word in writing, and not just hear it, I forget it easily
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Recent Examples of auditory
The study was also purely behavioral and observational; the scientists propose that the mechanism involves the motor areas and the auditory dorsal pathway, but that remains a theory until brain imaging can support the findings.
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New Atlas, 9 Apr. 2025
Test out various methods to influence your auditory and visual environment.
—Kate Wieczorek, Forbes.com, 29 Mar. 2025
However, Mullen is also dealing with his own demons, including lapses in memory and auditory and visual hallucinations, that make him (and those around him) question his judgment.
—Megan McCluskey, TIME, 20 Feb. 2025
With the exception of any prior mental illness, Mom was a textbook case of postpartum psychosis: Restlessness, disordered thinking, paranoia, panic, auditory and visual hallucinations, and most dangerously—voices and thoughts about needing to kill your baby or yourself.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 16 Feb. 2025
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New Atlas, 9 Apr. 2025
Test out various methods to influence your auditory and visual environment.
—Kate Wieczorek, Forbes.com, 29 Mar. 2025
However, Mullen is also dealing with his own demons, including lapses in memory and auditory and visual hallucinations, that make him (and those around him) question his judgment.
—Megan McCluskey, TIME, 20 Feb. 2025
With the exception of any prior mental illness, Mom was a textbook case of postpartum psychosis: Restlessness, disordered thinking, paranoia, panic, auditory and visual hallucinations, and most dangerously—voices and thoughts about needing to kill your baby or yourself.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 16 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for auditory
Adjective
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Limestone was used to build the 12th-century chapel on the grounds, which now hosts acoustic gigs and pop-up dinners.—
Rachel Howard,
Travel + Leisure,
13 May 2025
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Some have taken a bemused pleasure in Americana-style music finally getting its own hip-hop-style major beef, even if the two acoustic guitar strummers in question are wildly mismatched as far as being a comparative David and Goliath.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
11 May 2025
Adjective
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The recording’s aural scenography set the stage for the section’s visual pieces, including two gelatin silver prints by photographer James Van Der Zee.—
Ivy G. Wilson,
Artforum,
1 May 2025
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That is before even considering the visual spectacle, which has its own epic-mashup qualities over the nonstop course of nearly three hours; Beyoncé is not about to do that much aural genre-bending without providing an analog for the eyes.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
29 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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While everyone has auricular muscles, only a small number of people can consciously flex these muscles to wiggle their ears.—
Clarissa Brincat,
Popular Science,
27 Feb. 2025
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Each muscle is responsible for a different movement: the anterior auricular muscle pulls the ear forward, the superior auricular muscle lifts it slightly, and the posterior auricular muscle pulls it backward.—
Clarissa Brincat,
Popular Science,
27 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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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.—
Chris Bieri,
Anchorage Daily News,
15 June 2023
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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
Adjective
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Indeed, there have been 50 recessions in American history, dating back to the Articles of Confederation, some mild to the point of being hardly perceptible, some devastating like the Great Recession of 2008-09 and the Covid Recession of 2020.—
Eli Amdur,
Forbes.com,
10 May 2025
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These barely perceptible shifts — caused by moving water, tectonic activity or shifting rock — offer clues about what lies beneath the planet's surface.—
Victoria Corless,
Space.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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“Auditory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/auditory. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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