English noun: sensory faculty | |||
1. | sensory faculty (cognition) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended | ||
Samples | In the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing. | ||
Synonyms | sensation, sense, sentience, sentiency | ||
Broader (hypernym) | faculty, mental faculty, module | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | modality, sense modality, sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sensory system | ||