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aurally

/ˈɔːɹ.əl.i/US/ˈoɹ.ə.li/

aurally adverb: pertaining to sound or the ear; via or through the sense of hearing.

Adverb

aurally (not comparable)

  1. 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.2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 10

Origin of aurally

From aural + -ly.

Words formed from aurally

Questions about aurally

What does aurally mean?
Aurally means pertaining to sound or the ear; via or through the sense of hearing.
What part of speech is aurally?
Aurally is an adverb.
How do you pronounce aurally?
Aurally is pronounced /ˈɔːɹ.əl.i/ (UK).

Words near aurally in the dictionary

  1. aurality
  2. auralization
  3. auralizations
  4. auralize
  5. auralized
  6. aurally
  7. aurally challenged
  8. auramaxx
  9. auramaxxed
  10. auramaxxes
  11. auramaxxing

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