English

Etymology 1

Adjective

1. of, or relating to hearing, or to the sense or organs of hearing

Derived terms

• auditory bone
• auditory nerve

Translations

• Slovak: sluchový
• Polish: słuchowy
• Russian: слуховой (sluχovój)

• Arabic: سمعي

Etymology 2

Noun

1. An assembly of hearers; an audience.
   • 1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist, p. 7:

     ...and because though these learned Gentlemen (sayes he, turning to his two friends) need not fear to discourse before any Auditory...

2. An auditorium.

• Auditory system, the neurological structures and pathways of sound perception.
• Sound, the physical signal perceived by the auditory system.
• Hearing (sense), is the auditory sense, the sense by which sound is perceived.
• Ear, the auditory end organ.
• Cochlea, the auditory branch of the inner ear.
• Auditory illusion, sound trick analogous to an optical illusion.
• Primary auditory cortex, the part of the higher-level of the brain that serves hearing.
• External auditory meatus, the ear canal
• Auditory phonetics, the science of the sounds of language
• Auditory imagery, hearing in head in the absence of sound