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English noun: sensory faculty

1. sensory faculty (cognition) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended


SamplesIn the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing.


Synonymssensation, sense, sentience, sentiency


Broader (hypernym)faculty, mental faculty, module


Narrower (hyponym)modality, sense modality, sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sensory system









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