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Also called sensum. Psychology. the basic unit of an experience resulting from the stimulation of a sense organ; a stimulus or an object of perception or sensation.

Epistemology. datum (def. 3).

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Origin of sense datum

First recorded in 1920–25

Words nearby sense datum

sensationalism, sensationalize, sensationism, sense, Sense and Sensibility, sense datum, senseful, sensei, senseless, sense of equilibrium, sense organ

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But give the Kingdom credit for its sense of mercy: The lashes will be administered only 50 at a time.
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It may be fun and it may get them paid, until oversaturation ruins our sense for irony and destroys the market for it.
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Other major news outlets made the same decision, hiding behind a misplaced sense of multicultural sensitivity.
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And extortion makes a lot more sense before a story hits the news wire, not after.
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Because they stopped and I thought, “OK, that makes sense,” and then all of a sudden I saw another issue!
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A constant sense of easy balance should be developed through poising exercises.
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There is, perhaps, in this childish suffering often something more than the sense of being homeless and outcast.
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In one sense, then, the new issue has adequate expansibility for ordinary needs.
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That is the only point in which one sees Liszt's sense of his own greatness; otherwise his manner is remarkably unassuming.
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In the close relation and affection of these last days, the sense of alienation and antagonism faded from both their hearts.
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British Dictionary definitions for sense datum

sense datum

noun

philosophy a sensation detached both from any information it may convey and from its putative source in the external world, such as the bare awareness of a red visual field. Sense data are held by some philosophers to be the immediate objects of experience providing certain knowledge from which knowledge of material objects is inferredSee also representationalism (def. 1), apriorism

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Medical definitions for sense datum

sense datum

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A basic, unanalyzable sensation, such as color, sound, or smell, experienced upon stimulation of a sense organ or receptor.

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