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sensories

sensories is the plural of sensory.

Meaning of sensory

Noun

sensory (plural sensories)

  1. (dated) The sensorium.
    • Is not the Senſory of Animals that place to which the ſenſitive Subſtance is preſent, and into which the ſenſible Species of Things are carried through the Nerves and Brain, that there they may be perceived by their immediate preſence to that ſubſtance ?1704, Sir Isaac Newton, Opticks, 3rd edition, London: W. and J. Innys, published 1721, page 344
  2. (obsolete) 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.a. 1626, Francis Bacon, “Consent of Visibles, and Audibles”, in Sylva Sylvarvm: Or, A Naturall Historie, 3rd edition, London: William Rawley, published 1631, page 68

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What is sensories the plural of?
Sensories is the plural of sensory.

Words near sensories in the dictionary

  1. sensoriality
  2. sensorially
  3. sensoribehavioural
  4. sensoric
  5. sensorics
  6. sensories
  7. sensorigenesis
  8. sensorily
  9. sensorimotor
  10. sensorimotoric
  11. sensoriness

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