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AUDITORY MODALITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The ability to hear; the auditory faculty
Example:
his hearing was impaired
Synonyms:
audition; auditory modality; auditory sense; hearing; sense of hearing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("auditory modality" is a kind of...):
modality; sense modality; sensory system (a particular sense)
exteroception (sensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the body)
Domain member category:
auditory system (the sensory system for hearing)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "auditory modality"):
ear (good hearing)
absolute pitch; perfect pitch (the ability to identify the pitch of a tone)
