auditory

English edit

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɔː.dɪ.tə.ɹi/, /ˈɔː.dɪ.tɹi/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɔː.dɪˌtɔɹ.i/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈɑː.dɪˌtɔɹ.i/
Rhymes: -ɔːdɪtəɹi

Borrowed from Latin audītōrius (“pertaining to a hearer or hearing”), from audiō (“to hear”) +‎ -tōrius (“-tory”, adjectival suffix).

auditory (not comparable)

Of, or relating to hearing, or to the sense or organs of hearing.
Synonyms: otic, acoustic, aural, auricular

Translations

From Latin audītōrium (“the place where something is heard; the assembled hearers”) +‎ -y.

auditory (plural auditories)

(archaic) Synonym of audience.
- 1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist‎^[1], 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], chapter IV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 26:
  A general murmur of assent arose from his little auditory.
(archaic) Synonym of auditorium.

audience — see audience

auditorium — see auditorium

“auditory”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
“auditory”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.