English noun: esthesis |
1. | esthesis (cognition) an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation |
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| Samples | A sensation of touch.
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| Synonyms | aesthesis, sensation, sense datum, sense experience, sense impression |
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| Broader (hypernym) | perception |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | auditory sensation, gustatory perception, gustatory sensation, limen, masking, odor, odour, olfactory perception, olfactory sensation, smell, sound, synaesthesia, synesthesia, taste, taste perception, taste sensation, threshold, vision, visual sensation |
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