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extroceptive

extroceptive is the misspelling of exteroceptive.

Meaning of exteroceptive

Adjective

exteroceptive (not comparable)

  1. That responds to external stimuli
    • Many amputees report that they are able to perform voluntary movements of their phantom, which generally increase the vividness of the sensations; immobility and involuntary movements are also common. Broadly, phantom sensations can be categorized into kinetic, kinesthetic, and exteroceptive...2017, Melvin Mezue and Tamar R. Makin, “Immutable body representations: Lessons from phantoms in amputees”, in Frédérique de Vignemont and Adrian J. T. Alsmith, editors, The Subject's Matter...

Questions about extroceptive

What is extroceptive the misspelling of?
Extroceptive is the misspelling of exteroceptive.

Words near extroceptive in the dictionary

  1. extrinsicness
  2. extrinsics
  3. extripate
  4. extro
  5. extro-
  6. extroceptive
  7. extrodinary
  8. extroflection
  9. extroflections
  10. extroitive
  11. extrolite

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Adapted from Wiktionary: extroceptive (page history and authors); exteroceptive (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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