spatially

American  

[spey-shuh-lee] / ˈspeɪ ʃə li /

adverb

1. in a way that relates to space or to the location or extent of objects in three-dimensional space.

   Space and time are two ways in which things are spread out in relationship to each other: spatially things are here and there, and temporally things are before and after.

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Other Word Forms

• nonspatially adverb
• quasi-spatially adverb
• unspatially adverb

Etymology

Origin of spatially

spatial ( def. ) + -ly

Example Sentences

“Things don’t have the same depth of field. When my friend was tying her shoelaces behind me, it was just so loud. Things spatially were being thrown. It was disorienting.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2025

The reef has "experienced unprecedented levels of heat stress, which caused the most spatially extensive and severe bleaching recorded to date," the report found.

From BBC • Aug. 5, 2025

In this way, they obtained spatially and temporally finely resolved locations where vultures fed.

From Science Daily • Nov. 19, 2024

The lively canvas, hardly an illustration of an event, employs light-reflective silver and golden-brown metallic paints applied in vast fields of paisley-like commas that dematerialize into a spatially ambiguous surface shimmer.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2024

I’ve never been what you would call coordinated or spatially intelligent.

From "Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures" by Kate DiCamillo