Sensory
['sens(ə)rɪ] or ['sɛnsəri]
Definition
(adj.) involving or derived from the senses; 'sensory experience'; 'sensory channels' .
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Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to the sensorium or sensation; as, sensory impulses; -- especially applied to those nerves and nerve fibers which convey to a nerve center impulses resulting in sensation; also sometimes loosely employed in the sense of afferent, to indicate nerve fibers which convey impressions of any kind to a nerve center.
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Examples
- Scien ce demands the conceptual rather than the merely sensory. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The more isolated the object, the more isolated the sensory quality, the more distinct the sense-impression as a unit of knowledge. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- What about extra-sensory perception? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The sensory elements of consciousness are involved, however, in perception, memory, volition, reason, and sentiment, as they are in imagination. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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