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auditory

adj
/ˈɔː.dɪ.tə.ɹi/UK/ˈɔː.dɪˌtɔɹ.i/US/ˈɑː.dɪˌtɔɹ.i/

Etymology

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

  1. borrowed from audītōrius — “pertaining to a hearer or hearing”

Definitions

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

  2. Synonym of audience.

    • ...and because though these learned Gentlemen (sayes he, turning to his two friends) need not fear to discourse before any Auditory...
    • A general murmur of assent arose from his little auditory.

  3. Synonym of auditorium.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at auditory. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at auditory. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at auditory

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA