sensory
/ˈsɛn.sə.ɹi/
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Australia/ˈsen.sə.ɹi/
sensory adjective: of the physical senses or sensation.
Adjective
sensory (not comparable)
- Of the physical senses or sensation.
- The Species of things are perceived rather there whereto they are carried. But every ſenſory Nerve each in its place carries the Species to the beginning of the ſpinal Marrow, and therefore each in their place are judged and received by the Soul, in the beginning of the ſpinal Marrow.1665, Thomas Bartholin, chapter VI, in anonymous translator, Bartholinus Anatomy, London: Nich. Culpeper and Abdiah Cole, translation of Anatomia (in New Latin), page 142
- 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.1873, Alpheus Spring Packard, “Hints on the Ancestry of Insects”, in Our Common Insects: A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses, Salem: Naturalists’ Agency, page...
- Conveying nerve impulses from the sense organs to the nerve centers.
- sensory neurons
- Synonyms:
- afferent
Noun
sensory (plural sensories)
- 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
- 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
- Dr. Burnet, late Bishop of Sarum, on 4 Heb. v. 13, anatomically describing the texture of the eye[…]so God who made this sensorie, did with the greatest ease and at once see all that was don thro’ the vast universe, even to the very thought as well as action.1689–90, John Evelyn, edited by William Bray, Memoirs of John Evelyn, new edition, volume III, London: Henry Colburn, published 1827, page 292
sensory meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Kannada and Arabic
sensory in Tamil
- உணரத்தக்க, உணர்ச்சிக்குரிய, உணர்ச்சியுள்ள, உணர், உணர்வு, சுரப்பு ஊக்கி நரம்பு
sensory in Bengali
- সংবেদনশীল, ইন্দ্রিয় সংক্রান্ত
sensory in Kannada
- ಇಂದ್ರಿಯಗಳಿಗೆ ಸಂಬಂಧಿಸಿದ, ಜ್ಞಾನವಾಹಕ, ಸಂವೇದನಾವಾಹಕ
sensory in Arabic
- of the senses or sensation
- حِسِّيّ ḥissiyy, حِسِّيَّة ḥissiyya
Examples of sensory in a sentence
- The insect has a pair of sensory appendages.
- I stim to self-regulate and to avoid sensory overload, meltdowns, or shutdowns in environments that are inaccessible.
- Neurological examination revealed upper thoracic myeloradiculopathy probably of neoplastic origin with sensory localization to D5 spinal level.
Synonyms of sensory
Forms of sensory
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | sensoric |
| Noun | |
| plural | sensories |
Origin of sensory
From sense + -ory.
Words formed from sensory
- 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 detox
- sensory garden
- sensory gating
- sensory hypersensitivity
- sensory memory
- sensory neuron
- sensory overload
- sensory play
- sensory processing sensitivity
- sensory recall
- sensory receptor
- sensory root
- somatic sensory cortex
- somatosensory
- subsensory
- supersensory
- suprasensory
- thermosensory
- trisensory
- unisensory
- unsensory
- viscerosensory
- visuosensory
- Wartenberg's migrant sensory neuritis
Phrases with sensory
Words that rhyme with sensory
- suspensory
- dispensary
- audiosensory
- auditosensory
- biosensory
- bisensory
- chemosensory
- electrosensory
- extrasensory
- genitosensory
- hemisensory
- hygrosensory
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Questions about sensory
- What does sensory mean?
- Sensory means of the physical senses or sensation.
- What is sensory in Tamil?
- Sensory in Tamil is உணரத்தக்க, உணர்ச்சிக்குரிய, உணர்ச்சியுள்ள. See Sensory meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is sensory?
- Sensory can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce sensory?
- Sensory is pronounced /ˈsɛn.sə.ɹi/ (UK).
Words near sensory in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: sensory (page history and authors); sensory (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sensory (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sensory (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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