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sensory

adj
/ˈsɛn.sə.ɹi/CA/ˈsen.sə.ɹi/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sent-der. Proto-Italic *sentjō Latin sentiō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin sēnsusbor. Proto-Germanic *sinnaz Frankish *sinnbor. Vulgar Latin *sennus Old French sensbor. Middle English sense English sense Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -tōriusder. Middle English -orie English -ory English sensory From sense + -ory.

  1. derived from *sent-✻ — “to feel”
  2. derived from *sinn✻
  3. derived from *sennus✻ — “sense, reason, way”
  4. derived from sēnsus — “sensation, feeling, meaning”
  5. derived from sens, sen, san — “sense, perception, direction”
  6. inherited from sense
  7. formed as sensory — “sense + -ory”

Definitions

  1. Of the physical senses or sensation.

    • It is evident that in the ancestor of these two groups the first pair of appendages became early adapted for purely sensory purposes, and were naturally projected far in advance of the mouth, forming the antennæ.
    • Findings of the sensory analysis panel at NWFSC [the Northwest Fisheries Science Center], which tested and classified flesh characteristics of both Pacific and giant grenadier, are averaged and summarized in Table 10.

  2. Conveying nerve impulses from the sense organs to the nerve centers.

    • sensory neurons

  3. The sensorium.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. An organ or faculty of sense.

      • BOth of them ſpread themſelues in Round, and fill a whole Floare or Orbe, vnto certaine Limits : and are carried a great way : And doe languiſh and leſſen by degrees, according to the Diſtance of the Obiects from the Senſories.

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Derived

audiosensory, autonomous sensory meridian response, biosensory, bisensory, chemosensory, dual sensory impaired, electrosensory, extrasensory, genitosensory, hemisensory, hygrosensory, intersensory, laterosensory, magnetosensory, mechanosensory, metabosensory, monosensory, multisensory, neurosensory, nonsensory, orosensory, osmosensory, parasensory, photosensory, polysensory, prosensory, psychosensory, sensori-, sensorily, sensoriness, sensorineural, sensoriperceptual, sensori-volitional, sensory bin, sensory dep, sensory deprivation, sensory garden, sensory gating, sensory hypersensitivity, sensory memory · +21 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at sensory. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at sensory. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at sensory

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA