extensity
Americannoun
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the quality of having extension.
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Psychology. the attribute of sensation from which the perception of spatial extension is developed.
noun
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psychol that part of sensory perception relating to the spatial aspect of objects
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rare the condition of being extensive or extended
Etymology
Origin of extensity
Example Sentences
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Hence is derived the coloured presentation of Vision to which the character of extensity attaches.
From Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge by Alexander Philip
He is well aware of the results of "the breach between quality and quantity," between true duration and pure extensity.
From Bergson and His Philosophy by John Alexander Gunn
What is lacking in extensity of associative reproduction must be added in intensity.
From The Psychology of Beauty by Ethel Dench Puffer Howes
The extensity of a sensation depends on the number of nerve endings stimulated.
From The Mind and Its Education by George Herbert Betts
It will be found that form is essentially extended, inseparable as it is from the extensity of the becoming which has materialized it in the course of its flow.
From Creative Evolution by Arthur Mitchell
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