auditory
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɔː.dɪ.tə.ɹi/, /ˈɔː.dɪ.tɹi/
Audio (Berkshire) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɔː.dɪˌtɔɹ.i/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ˈɑː.dɪˌtɔɹ.i/
- Rhymes: -ɔːdɪtəɹi
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin audītōrius (“pertaining to a hearer or hearing”), from audiō (“to hear”) + -tōrius (“-tory”, adjectival suffix).
Adjective
auditory (not comparable)
- Of, or relating to hearing, or to the sense or organs of hearing.
- Synonyms: otic, acoustic, aural, auricular
Derived terms
- auditorian
- auditorily
- auditory bone
- auditory canal
- auditory nerve
- auditory processing disorder
- auditory tube
- cardioauditory
- external auditory meatus
- internal auditory canal
- nonauditory
- oculoauditory
- postauditory
- preauditory
- subauditory
- visuoauditory
Related terms
- audio
- audio-
- auditorium
Translations
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Etymology 2
From Latin audītōrium (“the place where something is heard; the assembled hearers”) + -y.
Noun
auditory (plural auditories)
- (archaic) Synonym of audience.
- 1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist, page 7:
- ...and because though these learned Gentlemen (sayes he, turning to his two friends) need not fear to discourse before any Auditory...
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), OCLC 630079698, page 26:
- A general murmur of assent arose from his little auditory.
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- (archaic) Synonym of auditorium.
Related terms
- audition
- audio
Translations
audience — see audience
auditorium — see auditorium
References
- “auditory”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “auditory”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary