Auditory
Auditory adjective - Of, relating to, or experienced through the sense of hearing.
Usage example: I have a bad auditory memory—unless I see a word in writing, and not just hear it, I forget it easily
Heard and auditory are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Heard" instead an adjective "Auditory".
Heard
Heard adjective - Detected or perceived by the sense of hearing.
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Auditory and heard are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Auditory" instead an adjective "Heard".
Nearby Word: hear
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All three hallucinatory characters are first heard before they're seen, as real schizophrenic delusions tend to be auditory before they become visual.
Source: Film / A Beautiful Mind -
Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: For the entire film, we assume the voices Donny hears are simply auditory hallucinations, though as he burns to death, they denounce him as a failure, and later another abused child is depicted as hearing disembodied voices identical to the ones Donny heard.
Source: Film / Don't Go in the House - The influence of the piece can be heard in many of Emilie Autumn's songs, since as a child she would mentally play the piece each night to suppress her auditory hallucinations (as quoted from The Other Wiki).
Source: Music / Pachelbel's Canon
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