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 | ||