aurally

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English

Etymology

From aural +‎ -ly.

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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.
    • 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:
      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.

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