WordNet
n. the ability to hear; the auditory faculty; "his hearing was impaired" [syn: hearing, audition, sense of hearing, auditory modality]
Usage examples of "auditory sense".
The returning sonar thus passes virtually unimpeded through the 'auditory window', the delicate layer of tissue covering a thin lower mandible, travelling thence along the jaw until it reaches the auditory bulla, an auditory sense receptor lying close to the point of articulation of the lower jaw with the remainder of the skull.
His extraordinary auditory sense could hear distinctly where only whispers came to the others.
Only Doc Savage's remarkable auditory sense could have picked out even some of the words.
To do that most efficiently, he will need to maintain his auditory sense.
Minc was hearing his, but there was no time to take pity and stop the boy's auditory sense.
I could see very little, and the auditory sense was not of much help either, thanks to the echoes that distorted every sound.
The one thing of which he was aware was the sound of space, which was like an ocean plunging over a waterfall a thousand miles in height-and another sound, a high singsong, a cricket noise almost too high for his auditory sense to catch, and that, he told himself, was the sighing of the heat lightning which flared just this side of infinity and the flaring of the lightning, he knew-was the signature of time.
And if their auditory sense was not within human range the music boxes which had been used to such excellent advantage in establishing friendly relations with the Kanddoyds could not be brought out.
The visual and kinesthetic senses arc interfered with for the sake of a greater illusion of reality, but the auditory sense remains untouched.