Sensory Definition

sĕnsə-rē
adjective
Of or relating to the senses or sensation.
American Heritage
Transmitting impulses from sense organs to nerve centers; afferent.
American Heritage Medicine
Connected with the reception and transmission of sense impressions.
Webster's New World
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noun

(biology, dated) Sensorium.

Wiktionary
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Sensory

Noun

Singular:
sensory
Plural:
sensories

Origin of Sensory

  • From Latin sentire (“to feel").

    From Wiktionary

Sensory Sentence Examples

  • There is also in some genera a median retractile sensory papilla on the dorsal posterior surface above the rectum, not covered by the cuticle.

  • His deduction is logical; but he has forgotten to prove the assumption, and now confuses sensory operation with sensible object.

  • They may perhaps be considered as sensory.

  • The arrival of these texts—as well as Byzantium's own architecture, science, and art—triggered a sensory and intellectual explosion, which became the cultural movement we now call the Renaissance.

  • The Ego he considers not an entity sharply distinguished from the Non-ego, but merely, as it were, a medium of continuity of sensory impressions.

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Words Starting With

SSESEN

Words Ending With

YRYORY

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sensory

Words Starting With S and Ending With Y

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