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Sensory

adjective

Of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system. Synonyms: centripetal, receptive.

Involving or derived from the senses. Synonym: sensorial. "Sensory channels"

Relating to or concerned in sensation. Synonym: sensational. "Sensory organs"

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"Sensory" Quotes from Famous Books

... satisfied with abstract thought, invokes impressions produced by the senses, but does not comprehend sensation as practical sensory activities. ...

— Feuerbach: The roots of the socialist philosophy • Frederick Engels

... environment. The influence of play on character, and its relation to education, are suggestively indicated. The playful manifestations affecting the child himself and those affecting his relations to others have been carefully classified, and the reader is led from the simpler exercises of the sensory apparatus through a variety of divisions to inner imitations and social play. The biological, aesthetic, ethical, and pedagogical standpoints receive much attention from the investigator. While this book is an illuminating contribution to scientific literature, ...

— Other Worlds - Their Nature, Possibilities and Habitability in the Light of the Latest Discoveries • Garrett P. Serviss

Words linked to "Sensory" : sensation, afferent, extrasensory