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aurally

adv
/ˈɔːɹ.əl.i/UK/ˈoɹ.ə.li/US

Etymology

From aural + -ly.

  1. borrowed from auralis
  2. suffixed as aurally — “aural + ly”

Definitions

  1. Pertaining to sound or the ear

    Pertaining to sound or the ear; via or through the sense of hearing.

    • While the flashy special effects were nice, the movie was aurally jarring, loud and displeasing in general to the ear.
    • While differentiation is often not challenging for certain languages (anyone can recognise the difference between Russian and French, or Mandarin and Spanish), as languages become closer the difficulty of aurally separating them increases.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

5 hops · closes at aurally

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