Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to the sense of hearing; aural.

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  • adjective of, or relating to hearing, or to the sense or organs of hearing

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[audi(o)– + –al.]

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Latin audire ("to hear")

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Examples

  • The recording industry -- once an audial but now a visual medium -- has all but erased the line separating music and soft porn with Madonna, Britney Spears, and Lady Gaga all becoming queens of pop as much for their scantily-clad bodies as for their music.

    Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Why Values-Voters Have Completely Failed Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011

  • The sense of social hierarchy is even audial, with each button sounding a different chime.

    The Court of Modernism Alastair Gordon 2011

  • Since my audial memory isn't as good as my visual, I can listen to their stories every year or so, and while still moderately familiar I find it as entertaining as the first time around.

    Hearing voices 2008

  • Since my audial memory isn't as good as my visual, I can listen to their stories every year or so, and while still moderately familiar I find it as entertaining as the first time around.

    Archive 2008-07-01 2008

  • For example, in visual cognition, the object-aspects may be the appearance of merely colored shapes; in audial cognition of speech, they may be the appearance of merely the sound of consonants and vowels.

    Impure and Pure Appearances According to Non-Gelug 2006

  • Now all we have to do is to keep playing it, until it becomes part of Sage's everyday environment - not exclusive (like original classical music was written for and performed only for the church or for royalty), but part of her audial surroundings.

    notes from the peanut gallery Dean Francis Alfar 2003

  • Now all we have to do is to keep playing it, until it becomes part of Sage's everyday environment - not exclusive (like original classical music was written for and performed only for the church or for royalty), but part of her audial surroundings.

    Archive 2003-04-01 Dean Francis Alfar 2003

  • It is knowable by either visual or audial cognition and is revealing in the sense that it reveals the motivation.

    The Two Enlightenment-Building Networks (The Two Collections) 2004

  • Modern technology has added a new feature to the audial glut: the loudspeaker.

    Ring them bells 2000

  • Buyer's deafness: selective, quickly fading, total BLOCKQUOTEage of the audial canal.

    Sauce for the goose 2000

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