Word.ws English Dictionary

photosensation

photosensation noun: the process of sensing light.

Noun

photosensation (uncountable)

  1. The process of sensing light.
    • In addition to mechano- and chemosensation, there is evidence for further sensory function of cilia, e.g., for photosensation, osmosensation, thermosensation, and olfactory sensation.2015 May 19, Sandra Habbig, Max Christoph Liebau, “Ciliopathies - from rare inherited cystic kidney diseases to basic cellular function”, in Molecular and Cellular Pediatrics, volume 2, →DOI

Origin of photosensation

From photo- + sensation.

Questions about photosensation

What does photosensation mean?
Photosensation means the process of sensing light.
What part of speech is photosensation?
Photosensation is a noun.

Words near photosensation in the dictionary

  1. photoselections
  2. photoselective
  3. photoselectively
  4. photoselectivities
  5. photoselectivity
  6. photosensation
  7. photosensibility
  8. photosensing
  9. photosensitisation
  10. photosensitise
  11. photosensitised

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: photosensation (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “photosensation.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/photosensation. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.