Definition of Auditory sensation

1. Noun. The subjective sensation of hearing something. "He strained to hear the faint sounds"

Exact synonyms: Sound
Generic synonyms: Aesthesis, Esthesis, Sensation, Sense Datum, Sense Experience, Sense Impression
Specialized synonyms: Euphony, Music, Music, Pure Tone, Tone, Dissonance, Noise, Racket, Dub
Derivative terms: Sound, Sound, Sound

Lexicographical Neighbors of Auditory Sensation

auditory modality
auditory nerve
auditory nucleus
auditory oculogyric reflex
auditory organ
auditory ossicle
auditory ossicles
auditory pathway
auditory perception
auditory perceptual disorders
auditory pits
auditory placodes
auditory process
auditory receptor cells
auditory reflex
auditory sensation (current term)
auditory sense
auditory striae
auditory strings
auditory system
auditory teeth
auditory threshold
auditory tract
auditory tube
auditory vertigo
auditour
auditress
auditresses
audits

Literary usage of Auditory sensation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Experimental Psychology: A Manual of Laboratory Practice by Edward Bradford Titchener, ( (1901)
"auditory sensation. — There are two classes of auditory sensations : simple tones and simple noises. Simple tones (i) are given by weakly sounding ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"IL Physiological Character» of auditory sensation.—1. under ordinary circumstances auditory sensations are referred to the outer world. ..."

3. A Text book of physiology by Michael Foster (1894)
"... a simultaneous stimulation of the apparatus by vibrations of all kinds, and cannot therefore experience an auditory sensation corresponding to the ..."

4. A Text-book of psychology by Edward Bradford Titchener (1910)
"We are not here concerned with their energy, since this has no influence upon the uality of auditory sensation. And we shall speak, not of wave-length, ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Physiological Characters of auditory sensation. ... An auditory sensation lasts a short time after the cessation of the exciting cause, so that a number of ..."

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