Definitions

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

  • adjective Of or relating to hearing; auditory.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to the sense of hearing; concerned with the power of hearing; auditory.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Of or pertaining to hearing; auditory.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of or relating to hearing; auditory.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or relating to the process of hearing

Etymologies

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Compare French auditif.

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Examples

  • Ils lisent assez facilement le français, mais la compréhension auditive est un défi de taille!

    rubrique - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • While reading a tablet containing page one of some war plan, Daniel unknowingly gets infected by a parasite, which gives him visual and auditive delusions back on earth.

    Stargate SG-1 Watchathon - 'Legacy' (S03E04) 2009

  • She just has this strong emotional reaction to certain visual or auditive stimuli.

    Girlfriend Games 2009

  • Ils lisent assez facilement le français, mais la compréhension auditive est un défi de taille!

    rubrique - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • She just has this strong emotional reaction to certain visual or auditive stimuli.

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • I am subject to visual and auditive allucinations all the day.

    Harold Bloom, literary lion, loses his shit on Potter fans…again « raincoaster 2007

  • Today the term "deaf" is avoided and we prefer to speak of "auditive disability," precisely to distinguish the simple fact of not hearing about moral deafness.

    Father Cantalamessa: Curing our Deafness Argent 2006

  • Cataplexie, hallucination diverses (olfactive auditive sensorielle et bien sur hallucination visuelle les pus frequentes chez moi)

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2005

  • We don't have any auditive financial statements from 2002, 2003, and none from 2004.

    CNN Transcript Sep 22, 2004 2004

  • Not many would deny that, although pains, visual sensations, olfactory sensations, auditive sensations are very different experiences, nonetheless they all exhibit a common property called “phenomenal consciousness”.

    Intentionality Jacob, Pierre 2003

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