English noun: sensory system |
1. | sensory system (cognition) a particular sense |
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| Synonyms | modality, sense modality |
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| Broader (hypernym) | sensation, sense, sensory faculty, sentience, sentiency |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | audition, auditory modality, auditory sense, gustation, gustatory modality, hearing, olfaction, olfactory modality, sense of hearing, sense of smell, sense of taste, sight, smell, somatosense, taste, vision, visual modality, visual sense |
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2. | sensory system (body) the body's system of sense organs |
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| Broader (hypernym) | system |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | auditory system, vestibular apparatus, vestibular system, visual system |
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| Part holonym | first cranial nerve, nervii olfactorii, olfactory nerve, receptor, sense organ, sensory receptor |
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| Part meronym | body, organic structure, physical structure |
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