What does SENSORY mean?

Definitions for SENSORY
ˈsɛn sə ri; sɛnˈsɔr i əl, -ˈsoʊr-sen·so·ry

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. centripetal, receptive, sensory(a)adjective

    of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system

    "sensory neurons"

  2. sensory, sensorialadjective

    involving or derived from the senses

    "sensory experience"; "sensory channels"

  3. sensational, sensoryadjective

    relating to or concerned in sensation

    "the sensory cortex"; "sensory organs"

Wiktionary

  1. sensoryadjective

    Of the senses or sensation.

  2. Etymology: From sentire.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. SENSORIUM, SENSORYnoun

    Etymology: Latin.

    Spiritual species, both visible and audible, will work upon the sensories, though they move not any other body. Francis Bacon.

    As sound in a bell or musical string, or other sounding body, is nothing but a trembling motion, and the air nothing but that motion propagated from the object, in the sensorium ’tis a sense of that motion under the form of sound. Newton.

    Is not the sensory of animals the place to which the sensitive substance is present, and into which the sensible species of things are carried through the nerves of the brain, that there they may be perceived by their immediate presence to that substance? Isaac Newton, Opt.

    That we all have double sensories, two eyes, two ears, is an effectual confutation of this atheistical sophism. Richard Bentley.

ChatGPT

  1. sensory

    Sensory refers to anything relating to the senses or sensation - sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell. It involves the process of receiving information through these senses and the response of the nerves, neural pathways, and the brain to these stimuli. Sensory can also refer to the ability to detect or feel, perceive or experience sensations.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Sensoryadjective

    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

Editors Contribution

  1. sensory

    Relating to the senses.

    The sensory neurons were functioning efficiently.


    Submitted by MaryC on April 8, 2020  

Entomology

  1. Sensory

    relating to or having a sense function.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of SENSORY in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of SENSORY in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of SENSORY in a Sentence

  1. Alice Winocour:

    I had suffered from PTSD Alice Winocour by giving birth to my daughter and almost died from pre-eclampsia with her, and that is what the film is about... sensation, and the film is almost like a sensory experience and I wanted it to be very physical.

  2. Susan Sontag:

    Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life -- its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness -- conjoin to dull our sensory faculties.

  3. Oscar Auliq-Ice:

    Poetry often emphasizes the beauty of language and the sound of words. The use of rhyme, rhythm, and figurative language can create a sensory experience that goes beyond mere information or prose. This aesthetic appeal can captivate and engage readers or listeners.

  4. Anne Milasincic Andrews:

    Something as simple as putting a mint in your mouth can be enough to counteract that zombie-like feeling you get late in the afternoon, once again, just having sensory stimulation.

  5. Carolyn Garver:

    Autism consists of social/communication disorders and behavioral/sensory disorders, they can also have restricted or repetitive interests. And a horse can feed into that because they're very repetitive and always have the same gait.

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